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The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition is a thoroughly revised, re-organized, and re-worked edition of Ritchie and Bhatia's 1996 handbook. The work is divided into six parts, each devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA. Part I includes a recent history of methods used in SLA research and an overview of currently used methods. Part II contains chapters on Universal Grammar, emergentism, variationism, information-processing, sociocultural, and cognitive-linguistic. Part III is devoted to overviews of SLA research on lexicon, morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics, sentence processing, and the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge. Part IV examines neuropsychology of SLA, another on child SLA, and the effects of age on second language acquisition and use. Part V is concerned with the contribution of the linguistic environment to SLA, including work on acquisition in different environments, through the Internet, and by deaf learners. Finally, Part VI treats social factors in SLA, including research on acquisition in contact circumstances, on social identity in SLA, on individual differences in SLA, and on the final state of SLA, bilingualism.
This title was reviously published by Emerald under isbn 9781848552401.
About the author
William C. Ritchie, PhD (1969), Michigan, is Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University and specializes in the study of adult second language acquisition and the theoretical analysis of language mixing in bilinguals and multilinguals. He has co-edited three handbooks with Tej K. Bhatia -
Handbook of Bilingualism (2004/2006),
Handbook of Child Language Acquisition (1999), and
Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (1996) and is the sole author of a pioneering collection of works on second language acquisition, Second Language Acquisition Research: Issues and Implications (1978).
Tej K. Bhatia, PhD (1978), Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University. He is a recipient of the Chancellor's Citation Award for excellence in research. He has published a number of books, articles and book chapters in the areas of bilingualism, multiculturalism, media (advertising) discourse, socio- and psycho-linguistics, and the structure and typology of English and South Asian languages (particularly Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi).
Together they also edit the new publication Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition.
