The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)

Cambridge University Press, 1/17/2013
EAN 9781107007710, ISBN10: 1107007712

Hardcover, 840 pages, 24.9 x 17.3 x 5.1 cm
Language: English

What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition? What are the properties of interlanguage systems? This comprehensive 31-chapter handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). Its multi-perspective synopsis on recent developments in SLA research provides significant contributions by established experts and widely recognized younger talent. It covers cutting-edge and emerging areas of enquiry not treated elsewhere in a single handbook, including third language acquisition, electronic communication, incomplete first language acquisition, alphabetic literacy and SLA, affect and the brain, discourse, and identity. Written to be accessible to newcomers as well as experienced scholars of SLA, the Handbook is organised into six thematic sections, each with an editor-written introduction.

Introduction Julia Herschensohn and Martha Young-Scholten
Part I. Theory and Practice
1. Theories of language from a critical perspective Jan Koster
2. History of the study of L2 acquisition Margaret Thomas
3. Theoretical approaches Florence Myles
4. Scope and research methodologies Melinda Whong and Clare Wright
Part II. Internal Ingredients
5. The role of the native language Claire Foley and Suzanne Flynn
6. Learning mechanisms and automatization Richard Towell
7. Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus Bonnie D. Schwartz and Rex A. Sprouse
8. Learner internal psychological factors Jean-Marc Dewaele
9. Alphabetic literacy and adult L2 acquisition Elaine Tarone, Kit Hansen and Martha Bigelow
Part III. External Ingredients
10. Negotiated input and output interaction María del Pilar García Mayo and Eva Alcón Soler
11. Second language identity construction Elizabeth Miller and Ryuko Kubota
12. Socialization Daniel Véronique
13. Variation Vera Regan
14. Electronic interaction resources Astrid Ensslin and Cedric Krummes
Part IV. Biological Factors
15. Age related effects Julia Herschensohn
16. Childhood L2 acquisition Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva
17. Incomplete L1 acquisition Silvina Montrul
18. Third language acquisition Jason Rothman, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and Kees de Bot
19. Language processing Alice Foucart and Cheryl Frenck-Mestre
20. Affect and the brain Andrea Mates and Anna Joaquin
Part V. Properties of Interlanguage Systems
21. The lexicon James Milton and Giovanna Donzelli
22. Semantics Laurent Dekydtspotter
23. Discourse and pragmatics Roumyana Slabakova
24. Morphosyntax Tania Ionin
25. Phonology and speech Ellen Broselow and Yoonjung Kang
Part VI. Models of Development
26. Explaining change in transition grammars Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott and Roger Hawkins
27. Stage-like development and organic grammar Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten
28. Emergentism, connectionism and complexity models Randal Holme
29. Input, input processing and focus on form Joe Barcroft and Wynne Wong
30. Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development Amy Snyder Ohta
31. Nativelike and non-nativelike attainment Donna Lardiere.

Advance praise: 'This volume is a comprehensive overview of this interdisciplinary field: readable and yet uncompromising on accuracy; historically broad while detailed on recent and future research; and theoretically deep while reflecting a plurality of approaches. It will stand out for many years to come as a landmark in developmental linguistics and will be an essential reference tool for researchers and students alike.' Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh