Usage in Second Language Acquisition - Critical Reflections and Future Directions

The study of "usage" has constituted a major line of second language learning research for well over two decades now. The concept of usage, however, can be defined and studied in many different ways.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of contributors
1. Usage in second language acquisition
Kevin McManus
2. Corpus-linguistic approaches to usage in SLA
Stefanie Wulff
3. Multimodal resources and action: A conversation-analytic approach to SLA and usage
Søren Wind Eskildsen
4. Usage and variationist approaches to second language acquisition
Aarnes Gudmestad
5. What counts as usage in Dynamic Usage-Based models?
Marjolijn Verspoor and Hans-Jörg Schmid
6. Cognitive-linguistic approaches to SLA and usage
Han Luo
7. Usage in ISLA from a processing-based perspective
Ronald P. Leow
8. Skill acquisition theory: learning-to-use and usage for learning in SLA
Yuichi Suzuki
9. Synthesizing usage in second language acquisition
Kevin McManus
Index

About the author

Kevin McManus is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Summary

The study of “usage” has constituted a major line of second language learning research for well over two decades now. The concept of usage, however, can be defined and studied in many different ways.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin McManus
• Assisted by: Kevin McManus (Editor), McManus Kevin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2024
• EAN: 9781032668468
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266846-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Language acquisition, Language teaching theory & methods, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism