Portraits of the L2 User (Second Language Acquisition (Buffalo, N.Y.), 1.) (Paperback)
by Vivian J. Cook (Editor)
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"Portraits of the L2 User" treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and methods, seen from a common perspective.
About the Author
After writing EFL course-books, Vivian Cook concentrated on linguistics and language learning in books such as Chomsky's Universal Grammar and Second Language Learning and Language Teaching. His current interest is developing the concept of multi-competence and applying it to the design of language teaching materials. He was founding President of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA).
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Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective (Constructional Approaches to Language) (Paperback)
by Mirjam Fried (Editor), Jan-Ola Ostman (Editor)
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Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co (January 9, 2008)
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Coordinating Constructions
Edited by Martin Haspelmath
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Typological Studies in Language 58
2004. xcv, 578 pp.
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This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Coordination has been studied intensively in English and other major European languages, but we are only beginning to understand the range of variation that is found world-wide. This volume consists of a number of general studies, as well as fourteen case studies of coordinating constructions in languages or groups of languages: Africa (Iraqw, Fongbe, Hausa), the Caucasus (Daghestanian, Tsakhur, Chechen), the Middle East (Persian and other Western Iranian languages), Southeast Asia (Lai, Karen, Indonesian), the Pacific (Lavukaleve, Oceanic, Nêlêmwa), and the Americas (Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan). A detailed introductory chapter summarizes the main results of the volume and situates them in the context of other relevant current research.
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General list of abbreviations of grammatical categories viii–ix
General articles 1
1. Coordinating constructions: An overview
Martin Haspelmath 3–39
2. Coordination in Mentalese
Toshio Ohori 41–66
3. Coordination: An adaptationist view
Jeffrey Heath 67–88
4. Conjunction and personal pronouns
D.N.S. Bhat 89–105
Africa 107
5. The grammar of conjunctive and disjunctive coordination in Iraqw
Maarten Mous 109–122
6. Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with reference to Haitian Creole
Claire Lefebvre 123–164
7. Comitative, coordinating, and inclusory constructions in Hausa
Mahamane L. Abdoulaye 165–193
Caucasus 195
8. Coordinating constructions in Daghestanian languages
Helma Berg 197–226
9. Where coordination meets subordination: Converb constructions in Tsakhur (Daghestanian)
Konstantin I. Kazenin and Yakov G. Testelets 227–239
10. Coordination in Chechen
Liane Jeschull 241–265
Middle East 267
11. Coordination in three Western Iranian languages: Vafsi, Persian and Gilaki
Donald Stilo 269–330
Southeast Asia 331
12. Coordination in Hakha Lai (Tibeto-Burman)
David A. Peterson and Kenneth VanBik 333–356
13. Conjunction and concatenation in Sgaw Karen: Familiarity, frequency, and conceptual unity
Carol Lord and Louisa Benson Craig 357–370
14. Riau Indonesian Sama : Explorations in macrofunctionality
David Gil 371–424
Pacific 425
15. Coordination in Lavukaleve
Angela Terrill 427–443
16. Coordination in Oceanic languages and Proto Oceanic
Claire Moyse-Faurie and John Lynch 445–497
17. Coordination strategies and inclusory constructions in New Caledonian and other Oceanic languages
Isabelle Bril 499–533
Americas 535
18. Coordination in Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan
Andrej A. Kibrik 537–553
Language index 555
Name index 557
Subject index 559
A Course In Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar GPSG (The Centre for Computational Linquistics Book Ser.) (Paperback)
by Paul Bennett (Author) "This text is an introduction to modern grammatical theory, specifically the syntactic aspects of the theory known as Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG)..." (more)
Key Phrases: feature instantiation principles, alleged baron, morphosyntactic locus, The Control Agreement Principle, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Feature Co-occurrence Restrictions (more...)
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"Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar" GPSG has become a major syntactic theory in linguistics and in this volume it receives comprehensive tutorial treatment.; The text assumes an introductory knowledge of syntactic theory and covers all the main constructs of the grammar. A substantial part of English grammar is covered in a precise and formal manner, using numerous diagrams. Recent issues and developments are examined and a final chapter outlines the importance of GPSG to computational linguistics.; This textbook is designed for students of intermediate and advanced courses in syntax and the structure of English, and computational linguistics.
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Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing, and Identification (Hardcover)
by Anne Lobeck (Author)
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"This book is marvelous--it gives an elegant analysis for an amazing range of complicated data in various languages."--Notes on Linguistics
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This book elaborates a theory of ellipsis that sheds new light on a well-known phenomenon, bringing it under the aegis of general and universal principles. Lobeck argues that ellipted categories in IP (VP Ellipsis), DP (N' Ellipsis), and CP (Sluicing) are empty, non-referential pronominals, subject to the same licensing and identification conditions as referential pro. She proposes that both types of empty pronominals must be licensed under head-government to satisfy the Empty Category Principle, and identified through strong agreement. In the case of ellipsis, agreement-type features make the empty category visible to interpretive processes of reconstruction. These licensing and identification conditions derive the result that ellipses are complements of functional categories DET, COMP, and INFL, but not of lexical categories. The analysis is supported by contrastive evidence from ellipsis in French and German, in which licensing and identification interact with Verb Raising, feature checking, and a parameter defining "strong" agreement.
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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 22, 1995)
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Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Perspective (Human Cognitive Processing) (Hardcover)
by Jan Nuyts (Author)
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The relationship between language and conceptualization remains a major puzzle in language research. This title investigates main types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. By adopting a systematic functional orientation, the book explains a whole range of peculiarities of epistemic expression forms and offers a perspective on which cognitive systems are needed to get from the concept of epistemic modality to its linguistic expression. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co (May 2001)
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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Paperback)
by Jr., Robert D. van Valin (Author)
Key Phrases: Van Valin, Actor Undergoer, Toba Batak (more...)
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'this book on RRG linguistic theory succeeds to provide a fresh and deep analytic view on the exploration of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics interfaces ... A special remark should emphasize the cross-linguistic value of the whole investigation within the book.' Zentralblatt MATH
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'this book on RRG linguistic theory succeeds to provide a fresh and deep analytic view on the exploration of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics interfaces ... A special remark should emphasize the cross-linguistic value of the whole investigation within the book.' Zentralblatt MATH
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Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 25, 2005)
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Formal Grammar: Theory and Implementation (New Directions in Cognitive Science) (Paperback)
by Robert Levine (Editor)
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The second volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series, this collection presents recent work in the fields of phonology, morphology, semantics, and neurolinguistics. Its overall theme is the relationship between the contents of grammatical formalisms and their real-time realizations in machine or biological systems. Individual essays address such topics as learnability, implementability, computational issues, parameter setting, and neurolinguistic issues. Contributors include Janet Dean Fodor, Richard T. Oehrle, Bob Carpenter, Edward P. Stabler, Elan Dresher, Arnold Zwicky, Mary-Louis Kean, and Lewis P. Shapiro.
About the Author
Robert Levine is at Ohio State University.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 5, 1992)
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Functional Constraints In Grammar: On The Unergative-unaccusative Distinction (Constructional Approaches to Language) (Hardcover)
by Susumu Kuno (Author), Takami Ken-ichi (Author), Kenichi Takami (Author)
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Generative Linguistics: A Historical Perspective (History of Linguistic Thought) (Paperback)
by Freder Newmeyer (Author) "Three linguistic work written in this century before 1950 are generally regarded as presenting 'generative' analyses of the data that they treat..." (more)
Key Phrases: lexicalist period, second language learning research, language learning researchers, George Lakoff, Noam Chomsky, Zellig Harris (more...)
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"Generative Linguistics belongs on the shelves of every library with holdings on generative grammar, and on the desks of everyone with a serious interest in the history of the field...." -- LINGUIST - 10/96
"Over the years, the author has become the historian par excellence of the generative movement in linguistics. . .very informative and detailed . . . brings together challenging essays on the 'Chomskyan revolution' and reappraises the debates that have now been going on for some thirty years. This makes this book particularly valuable to linguists." -- The Journal of Indo-European Studies
Generative Linguistics belongs on the shelves of every library with holdings on generative grammar, and on the desks of everyone with a serious interest in the history of the field....
–LINGUIST, 10/96
Over the years, the author has become the historian par excellence of the generative movement in linguistics. . .very informative and detailed . . . brings together challenging essays on the 'Chomskyan revolution' and reappraises the debates that have now been going on for some thirty years. This makes this book particularly valuable to linguists.
–The Journal of Indo-European Studies, April 1998
Over the years, the author has become the historian par excellence of the generative movement in linguistics. . .very informative and detailed . . . brings together challenging essays on the Chomskyan revolution and reappraises the debates that have now been going on for some thirty years. This makes this book particularly valuable to linguists.
–The Journal of Indo-European Studies, April 1998 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Here together for the first time are all of Frederick J. Newmeyer's writings on the origins and development of generative grammar. Spanning a period of fifteen years the essays address the nature of the "Chomskian Revolution", the deep structure debates of the 1970s, and the attempts to apply generative theory to second language acquisition. Written by one of America's most prominent linguists, these articles provide a challenging reappraisal of the "Chomskian Revolution"--the implications of which are still being debated some three decades on.
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Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 8, 1997)
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Grammar in Early Twentieth Century Philosophy (Paperback)
by Richard Gaskin (Author) "Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is celebrated for his distinction between the sense (Sinn) and reference (Bedeutung) of an expression..." (more)
Key Phrases: square brown thing, intersubstitutability salva congruitate, empty denoting phrases, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Moorean Russell (more...)
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In this book, ten essays examine the contributions made to the issue of the philosophical significance of grammar by Frege, Russell, Bradley, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Carnap and Heidegger. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
About the Author
Richard Gaskin is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He has extensive publications in ancient, medieval and modern metaphysics and philosophy of language, including The Sea Battle and the Master Argument (1995). --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
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The Grammar of Focus 作者：Georges Rebuschi, Laurice Tuller
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Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition (Second Language Acquistion Research Theoretical and Methodological Issues) (Hardcover)
by Bill VanPatten (Editor), Jessica Williams (Editor), Susanne Rott (Editor), Mark Overstreet (Editor)
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This volume presents a high caliber of careful psycholinguistic studies about how form and meaning are connected at the micro-processing level. It also shows further directions we need to take, including the studies about input-output relationships and the role of implicit learning in FMC. This volume is highly recommended for many SLA researchers, graduate students, and pedagogy specialists.
—Linguist List
...VanPatten, Williams, Rott, and Overstreet should be commended for their careful editorial work, as evidenced by the absence of typographical errors, accurate referencing, and useful author and subject indexes, as well as for their effort in calling attention to, exploring, and paving the way for future studies on one of the most fundamental concerns in SLA: how learners come to establish and develop connections between form and meaning in a L2.
—Modern Language Journal
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Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition is an interdisciplinary and timely edited book of essays and empirical studies, most of which are based on the papers presented at the Form and Meaning Conference held in Chicago in 2002. The goal of the conference and now of the book is to present linguistic and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition, attempting to integrate external and internal issues in interlanguage development, while outlining directions for future research. The editors address questions, such as: What is the nature and sequence of the form-meaning mapping process? How are these connections made? How are these connections used to construct grammars and lexicons? And, how can conditions and external factors be manipulated to improve the chances of making these form-meaning connections?
Contributors to this volume include such second language acquisition scholars as Susan Gass, Nick Ellis, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Catherine Doughty, and Diane Larsen-Freeman. They address these form-meaning issues from a variety of settings and from multiple perspectives.
Researchers and graduate students in applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and language pedagogy will find this volume to be an important resource.
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Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (April 14, 2004)
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ISBN-10: 0805849130
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Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives (Paperback)
by Diane J. Tedick (Editor)
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The text provides an interesting array of articles on language teacher education....The scope of the collection is large, and Tedick ambitiously tackles a number of different second language settings and contexts, in multi-educational, international and elementary, secondary and post-secondary areas....a collection of essays like Diane J. Tedick's Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives provides a stimulating and valuable reference tool to facilitate better language teacher education research internationally.
—TESL-EJ
...this book covers various knowledge bases required of different contexts around the world and discusses the language teacher research methodologies....for preservice and inservice teachers as well as teacher educators, this text may broaden their horizons and help them reflect upon the issues and topics being of interest in the current teaching profession.
—The Reading Matrix
...Tedick's edited volume is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature that deals with L2 teacher education broadly conceived. This volume is both a good indicator of where the field is at present and, even more important, where we need to go in the future. This is a book that really should be on every L2 educator's bookshelf.
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition
This volume has impressed me for several reasons. The first is its international perspective, combined with the inclusion of scholars from a number of second language teaching and scholarly communities. It is stimulating to read about innovative approaches to second language education and to second language teacher education in other contexts....The volume also impresses me because it includes contributions from well-established, internationally known scholars, acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields, and from young, up and coming scholars, who represent the future of these fields. To me, this variety sends the message that valuable contributions to the dialogue about second language teacher education come from a variety of sources, and that the dialogue is alive and well and will continue. Finally, the volume impresses me because of the contributions of practicing teachers. The inclusion of teacher authors sends a message that practitioners' voices matter....I am confident that this volume will stimulate further conversations and collaborations among those of us whose passion is the teaching and learning of second languages.
—Sarah Hudelson
Arizona State University, From the Foreword
This book asks the major question: what comprises the knowledge base for language teacher education? It also asks teacher educators to take a critical look at their practice and asks how one really learns to be a language teacher. Tedick's volume...contributes significantly to the field of second language teacher education.
—Lorrie S. Verplaetse
Southern Connecticut State University
The text provides an interesting array of articles on language teacher education....The scope of the collection is large, and Tedick ambitiously tackles a number of different second language settings and contexts, in multi-educational, international and elementary, secondary and post-secondary areas....a collection of essays like Diane J. Tedick's Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives provides a stimulating and valuable reference tool to facilitate better language teacher education research internationally.
—TESL-EJ
...this book covers various knowledge bases required of different contexts around the world and discusses the language teacher research methodologies....for preservice and inservice teachers as well as teacher educators, this text may broaden their horizons and help them reflect upon the issues and topics being of interest in the current teaching profession.
—The Reading Matrix
...Tedick's edited volume is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature that deals with L2 teacher education broadly conceived. This volume is both a good indicator of where the field is at present and, even more important, where we need to go in the future. This is a book that really should be on every L2 educator's bookshelf.
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition
This volume has impressed me for several reasons. The first is its international perspective, combined with the inclusion of scholars from a number of second language teaching and scholarly communities. It is stimulating to read about innovative approaches to second language education and to second language teacher education in other contexts....The volume also impresses me because it includes contributions from well-established, internationally known scholars, acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields, and from young, up and coming scholars, who represent the future of these fields. To me, this varietysends the message that valuable contributions to the dialogue about second language teacher education come from a variety of sources, and that the dialogue is alive and well and will continue. Finally, the volume impresses me because of the contributions of practicing teachers. The inclusion of teacher authors sends a message that practitioners' voices matter....I am confident that this volume will stimulate further conversations and collaborations among those of us whose passion is the teaching and learning of second languages.
—Sarah Hudelson
Arizona State University, From the Foreword
This book asks the major question: what comprises the knowledge base for language teacher education? It also asks teacher educators to take a critical look at their practice and asks how one really learns to be a language teacher. Tedick's volume...contributes significantly to the field of second language teacher education.
—Lorrie S. Verplaetse
Southern Connecticut State University
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The education of second language teachers takes place across diverse contexts, levels, settings, and geographic regions. By bringing together research, theory, and best practices from a variety of contexts (ESL/EFL, foreign language, bilingual and immersion education), this book contributes to building meaningful professional dialogue among second-language teacher educators. Featuring an international roster of authors, the volume is comprised of 18 chapters organized in four thematic sections: the knowledge base of second language teacher education; second language teacher education contexts; collaborations in second language teacher education; and second language teacher education in practice.
Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives is an essential professional resource for practicing and prospective second language teacher educators around the world.
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Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (August 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805848800
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Foreign Accent: The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Second Language Phonology (Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling) (Hardcover)
by Roy C. Major (Author) "Adults learning a second or foreign language often produce errors or nonnative substitutions, including a foreign accent and nonnative grammatical utterances (e.g., an English speaker..." (more)
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A major strength of Major's work is his delineation of the parameters of the OPM....Major is to be congratulated on producing a work that can be read profitably by specialists and nonspecialists alike....this book provides a readable overview of L2 phonological research and theory.... who are looking for an overview of a complex area of L2 acquisition, along with an explanatory mechanism and theory of the same, will need look no further.
—The Modern Language Journal
It is much to Major's credit that he has developed a truly comprehensive model of the basic structural sources that shape IL in its development. In doing so, he not only synthesizes much previous work (including his own) on variability, transfer, developmental processes, universals, markedness and similarity as determining factors in SLA but, more significantly, he produces out of this a deceptively simple and workable typology of far-reaching relevance for a whole series of linguistic phenomena....the OPM should function as an important orientation marker for future research in SLA and should...enlighten second language professionals as to the basically simple structural factors involved in IL development.
—Second Language Research
A major strength of Majors work is his delineation of the parameters of the OPM....Major is to be congratulated on producing a work that can be read profitably by specialists and nonspecialists alike....this book provides a readable overview of L2 phonological research and theory.... who are looking for an overview of a complex area of L2 acquisition, along with an explanatory mechanism and theory of the same, will need look no further.
—The Modern Language Journal
It is much to Majors credit that he has developed a truly comprehensive model of the basic structural sources that shape IL in its development. In doing so, he not only synthesizes much previous work (including his own) on variability, transfer, developmental processes, universals, markedness and similarity as determining factors in SLA but, more significantly, he produces out of this a deceptively simple and workable typology of far-reaching relevance for a whole series of linguistic phenomena....the OPM should function as an important orientation marker for future research in SLA and should...enlighten second language professionals as to the basically simple structural factors involved in IL development.
—Second Language Research
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Even though second-language learners may master the grammar and vocabulary of the new languages, they almost never achieve a native phonology (accent). Scholars and professionals dealing with second-language learners would agree that this is one of the most persistent challenges they face.
Now, for the first time, Roy Major's Foreign Accent covers the exploding scholarship in this area and lays out the issues specifically for audiences in the second language acquisition and applied linguistics community.
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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (March 1, 2001)
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ISBN-10: 0805838139
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Conversation Analysis (Sla Research) (Paperback)
by Numa Markee (Author)
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The book is written in a clear, interesting, yet challenging style....It would be of most use to the experienced teacher or upper-level research student interested in how conversation analysis can be used to analyze language learning in the classroom.
—TESL-EJ
...Conversation Analysis is a groundbreaking attempt. Markee has made the case that CA is capable of providing insights into language-learning processes. The inclusion of CA as an SLA methodology will no doubt broaden the horizon of language acquisition research....Markee has indeed made an important contribution to both CA and SLA.
—Language in Society
Markee's argument for including CA methodology in SLA research is persuasive.
—Cambridge University Press
Conversation Analysis has opened up a new frontier for both Conversation Analysis (CA) and second-language acquisition (SLA). It is a gutsy and timely book. As a first endeavor of its kind, it ventures to apply an increasingly popular discourse analytic methodology to a field whose research has traditionally been governed by experimental paradigms. It also strikes an impressive balance between theoretical considerations and empirical analyses. The book begins with purely theoretical discussions on the larger issues that govern the two fields, then moves on to incorporate empirical data in illustrating the possibility of connecting them. The theory-to-practice continuum is completed by applying CA to two SLA-related collections of data. In a remarkable way, the author manages to become fully engaged in micro-analytic procedures without for a moment losing sight of the larger pictures that motivated these procedures.
—Language in Society
...the book is well written and accomplishes its goal of illustrating how conversation analysis can be used as a methodological resource for SLA studies. This book is recommended for those interested in conducting research into how language is spoken and how learners learn from speaking language. It is especially useful for language teachers who want to explore issues related to teaching approaches that rely on small-group interaction.
—Modern Language Journal
The book is written in a clear, interesting, yet challenging style....It would be of most use to the experienced teacher or upper-level research student interested in how conversation analysis can be used to analyze language learning in the classroom.
—TESL-EJ
...Conversation Analysis is a groundbreaking attempt. Markee has made the case that CA is capable of providing insights into language-learning processes. The inclusion of CA as an SLA methodology will no doubt broaden the horizon of language acquisition research....Markee has indeed made an important contribution to both CA and SLA.
—Language in Society
Markees argument for including CA methodology in SLA research is persuasive.
—Cambridge University Press
Conversation Analysis has opened up a new frontier for both Conversation Analysis (CA) and second-language acquisition (SLA). It is a gutsy and timely book. As a first endeavor of its kind, it ventures to apply an increasingly popular discourse analytic methodology to a field whose research has traditionally been governed by experimental paradigms. It also strikes an impressive balance between theoretical considerations and empirical analyses. The book begins with purely theoretical discussions on the larger issues that govern the two fields, then moves on to incorporate empirical data in illustrating the possibility of connecting them. The theory-to-practice continuum is completed by applying CA to two SLA-related collections of data. In a remarkable way, the author manages to become fully engaged in micro-analytic procedures without for a moment losing sight of the larger pictures that motivated these procedures.
—Language in Society
...the book is well written and accomplishes its goal of illustrating how conversation analysis can be used as a methodological resource for SLA studies. This book is recommended for those interested in conducting research into how language is spoken and how learners learn from speaking language. It is especially useful for language teachers who want to explore issues related to teaching approaches that rely on small-group interaction.
—Modern Language Journal
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Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its demonstrations of how micro-moments of socially distributed cognition instantiated in conversational behavior contribute to observable changes in the participants' states of knowing and using a new language. This volume describes the methodology in detail, discusses its relevance for current theories of SLA, and uses two extended examples of conversational analysis to show how learners succeed or fail at the job of learning the meaning of a word or phrase in conversational context.
This book is one of several in LEA's Second Language Acquisition Research Series dealing with specific data collection methods or instruments. Each of these monographs addresses the kinds of research questions for which the method/instrument is best suited, its underlying assumptions, a characterization of the method/instrument and extended description of its use and problems associated with its use. For more information about these volumes, please visit LEA's Web site at www.erlbaum.com
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Second and Foreign Language Learning Through Classroom Interaction (Hardcover)
by Joan Kelly Hall (Editor), Joan Kelly 5/15 Hall (Editor), Lorrie Stoops Verplaetse (Editor) "In the field of second language acquisition (SLA), interaction has long been considered important in language learning..." (more)
Key Phrases: private speech data, additional language development, small circle with teacher, New York, Cambridge University Press, Newbury House (more...)
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The compilation of studies makes interesting and thought-provoking reading....Second and Foreign Language Learning Through Classroom Interaction makes a significant contribution...
—Science Books & Films
Each essay in the book sheds some light on classroom practices that help facilitate language learning....This is a meticulously edited, scholarly book. True to traditional academic writing practice, the introduction and essays are followed by extensive, up-to-date bibliographies....It challenges teachers to rethink their methods.
—Review posted on Amazon site
Reflects the current trend in the field of foreign- and second-language acquisition studies to view language learning as a group phenomenon rather than the traditional perspective of language learning as an individual process. This book rightly places language learning within the context of socialization and interaction. And, also rightly, it separates the distinct issues involved with the learning of a foreign language from those involved with learning a second language. I also appreciate the narrative, qualitative nature of the individual chapters, which reflect sensitive and thoughtful research practices.
—Mary Schmida
University of California, Berkeley
Well grounded in current theory and research which has turned its attention to interlanguage development through interaction and language use....Fills a gap in existing research publications.
—Carol A. Klee
University of Minnesota
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Brings together a set of papers that share the current theoretical interest in re-conceptualizing second & foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective, with practical concerns about second & foreign language pedagogy.
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Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (July 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080583513X
ISBN-13: 978-0805835137
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features (ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series) (Hardcover)
by Eli Hinkel (Author) "Because written discourse and text occupy a prominent place in the academy in the United States and other English-speaking countries, much research has been devoted..." (more)
Key Phrases: presupposition markers, epistemic hedges, language activity nouns, Manner Opinions, Grades Wealth, Chinese Japanese (more...)
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...this work is a valuable reference for anyone specifically involved with the design of academic writing courses, and presents some interesting data which I am sure any writer of a more general book on second language academic writing, as well as those working on more effective ways in which to teach it, will need to take into account.
—TESL-EJ
This book is a clear contribution to the field of research in second language writing and composition for college freshman. It is comprehensive in the sense that it considers grammar, lexis, and rhetoric as essential elements in teaching....Hinkel's strength lies in the fact that she led her research not into a study of language variation as corpora based research commonly leads to, but into pinning down language areas useful to include in an L2 writing text. Hinkel's book is a must read for curriculum designers who want to incorporate outcomes of corpus research in language teaching, writing instruction in particular.
—Linguist List
This is a valuable book, full of detailed information about students' grammatical choices. The extensive tables provide a comparison of linguistic features by essay prompt and L1, with lots of detail about the frequency of occurrence of particular structures...Her conclusions...strongly recommend substantial changes in ESL writing and grammar pedagogy to increase focus on the textual functions of grammatical features.
—TESOL QUARTERLY
Eli Hinkel's ambitious study of placement essays of 1,457 college students, a corpus of 437,768 words...is a major step toward catching up with past corpora studies of published texts....Hinkel's design is elegant and her results extensive--685,440 data points consisting of median and range values.
—The Modern Language Journal
This volume provides one of the most comprehensive analyses of academic writing in a second language (L2). Hinkel documents extensive research in the linguistic and rhetorical features found in L2 writing, weaving into her discussion a review of the research in first language (L1) writing. But this is not a book about contrastive rhetoric. Hinkel's purpose is to map out the particular features that constitute L2 academic writing through a review of the literature and her own empirical study, which dominates this book....I found much to admire in this book: Hinkel's comprehensive empirical study, her wide reading of the research in L2 writing (particularly contrastive rhetoric), and her passion for reform in the L2 classroom....Hinkel's findings deserve the attention of anyone involved in the teaching of L2 writing at the college or university level.
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition
The data in each chapter and the substantial tables in the appendix render this book a gold mine for students who want to undertake further research. And for those of us who construct placement exams, Hinkel's data raise some fundamental issues for futher exploration.
—American Journal of Psychology
...this work is a valuable reference for anyone specifically involved with the design of academic writing courses, and presents some interesting data which I am sure any writer of a more general book on second language academic writing, as well as those working on more effective ways in which to teach it, will need to take into account.
—TESL-EJ
This book is a clear contribution to the field of research in second language writing and composition for college freshman. It is comprehensive in the sense that it considers grammar, lexis, and rhetoric as essential elements in teaching....Hinkel's strength lies in the fact that she led her research not into a study of language variation as corpora based research commonly leads to, but into pinning down language areas useful to include in an L2 writing text. Hinkel's book is a must read for curriculum designers who want to incorporate outcomes of corpus research in language teaching, writing instruction in particular.
—Linguist List
This is a valuable book, full of detailed information about students' grammatical choices. The extensive tables provide a comparison of linguistic features by essay prompt and L1, with lots of detail about the frequency of occurrence of particular structures...Her conclusions...strongly recommend substantial changes in ESL writing and grammar pedagogy to increase focus on the textual functions of grammatical features.
—TESOL QUARTERLY
Eli Hinkel's ambitious study of placement essays of 1,457 college students, a corpus of 437,768 words...is a major step toward catching up with past corpora studies of published texts....Hinkel's design is elegant and her results extensive--685,440 data points consisting of median and range values.
—The Modern Language Journal
This volume provides one of the most comprehensive analyses of academic writing in a second language (L2). Hinkel documents extensive research in the linguistic and rhetorical features found in L2 writing, weaving into her discussion a review of the research in first language (L1) writing. But this is not a book about contrastive rhetoric. Hinkel's purpose is to map out the particular features that constitute L2 academic writing through a review of the literature and her own empirical study, which dominates this book....I found much to admire in this book: Hinkel's comprehensive empirical study, her wide reading of the research in L2 writing (particularly contrastive rhetoric), and her passion for reform in the L2 classroom....Hinkel's findings deserve the attention of anyone involved in the teaching of L2 writing at the college or university level.
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition
The data in each chapter and the substantial tables in the appendix render this book a gold mine for students who want to undertake further research. And for those of us who construct placement exams,Hinkel's data raise some fundamental issues for futher exploration.
—American Journal of Psychology
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This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts. Specifically, the research investigates the frequencies of uses of 68 linguistic (syntactic and lexical) and rhetorical features in essays written by advanced non-native speakers compared with those in the essays of native speakers enrolled in first-year composition courses. The selection of features for inclusion in this analysis is based on their textual functions and meanings, as identified in earlier research on English language grammar and lexis. Such analysis is valuable because it can inform the teaching of grammar and lexis, as well as discourse, and serve as a basis for second language curriculum and course design; and provide valuable insight for second language pedagogical applications of the study's findings.
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Hardcover: 392 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (January 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805838880
ISBN-13: 978-0805838886
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Body and Language: Intercultural Learning Through Drama (Advances in Foreign and Second Language Pedagogy) (Textbook Binding)
by Gerd Brauer (Editor) "Those of us who have chosen a career working with language have inevitably chosen to work with the bodies as well as the minds of..." (more)
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Highlights the bridging character of drama-based foreign and second language teaching for intercultural learning. Drama here is not limited to theater-related work, but means the interplay between body and language in general, to include, for example, sports, dancing, singing, and storytelling. The major techniques and curricular structures of educational drama and its application in the foreign and second language classroom are introduced.
About the Author
GERD BRAUER is Associate Professor, Department of German Studies, Emory University.
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Textbook Binding: 348 pages
Publisher: Ablex Publishing (May 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1567506712
ISBN-13: 978-1567506716
Educating Language-Minority Children (Paperback)
by Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students (Author), National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (Author), Diane August (Editor), Kenji Hakuta (Editor)
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In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes in which the language background is other than English. These students present unique challenges for America's education system. Based on "Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children", a comprehensive study published in 1997, this book summarizes for teachers and education policymakers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating such students. It discusses a broad range of educational issues: how students learn a second language; how reading and writing skills develop in the first and second languages; how information on specific subjects (for example, biology) is stored and learned and the implications for second-language learners; how social and motivational factors affect learning for English-language learners; how the English proficiency and subject matter knowledge of English-language learners are assessed; and what is known about the attributes of effective schools and classrooms that serve English-language learners.
Book Description
In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes in which the language background is other than English. These students present unique challenges for America's education system.
Based on Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children, a comprehensive study published in 1997, this book summarizes for teachers and education policymakers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating such students. It discusses a broad range of educational issues: how students learn a second language; how reading and writing skills develop in the first and second languages; how information on specific subjects (for example, biology) is stored and learned and the implications for second-language learners; how social and motivational factors affect learning for English-language learners; how the English proficiency and subject matter knowledge of English-language learners are assessed; and what is known about the attributes of effective schools and classrooms that serve English-language learners.
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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: National Academies Press (February 19, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0309064147
ISBN-13: 978-0309064149
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches