Second Language Acquisition

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics. It reviews the last thirty years of research in the field, focussing in particular on how the second or additional language is represented in the mind and how it is used in communication

List of contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I: Language; 1 Language architecture; 2 Language variation; 3 The psychological reality of language in use; Part II: Language Acquisition; 4 The Critical Period Hypothesis; 5 First language acquisition with two first languages; 6 Child second language, multilingual and heritage language acquisition, and language attrition; Part III: Second Language Acquisition; 7 Acquisition of (functional) morphology; 8 Acquisition of syntax; 9 Acquisition of the mental lexicon; 10 Acquisition of the syntax-semantics interface; 11 Acquisition of the syntax-discourse and semantics-pragmatics interfaces; 12 L2 processing; 13 The Bottleneck Hypothesis and its implications for the second language classroom; Glossary; References; Index

About the author

Roumyana Slabakova is Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK, where she is Director of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR). Her research interests are in the second language acquisition of meaning, more specifically phrasal-semantic, discourse, and pragmatic meanings, as well as generative linguistics research applied to language teaching. Her publications include Telicity in the Second Language (Benjamins 2001) and Meaning in the Second Language (Mouton de Gruyter 2008). She is the founding co-editor of the journal Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and also co-edits the journal Second Language Research.

Summary

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics. It reviews the last thirty years of research in the field, focussing in particular on how the second or additional language is represented in the mind and how it is used in communication

Product details

• Authors: Roumyana Slabakova, Roumyana (Chair of Applied Linguistics Slabakova, Slabakova Roumyana
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780199687268
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968726-8
• No. of pages: 506
• Series: Oxford Core Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Language acquisition, Language teaching and learning, Computational Linguistics, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Computational and corpus linguistics