| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 568 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies on language acquisition ; 25 |
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Studies on language acquisition ; 25.
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| Contents |
Investigating cognitive and processing mechanisms in instructed SLA -- Instructed learners' fluency and implicit/explicit language processes / Liz Temple -- Psycholinguistic aspects of gender acquisition in instructed GFL learning / Barbara Menzel -- Language analytic ability and oral production in a second language / Leila Ranta -- Formal instruction and the acquisition of verbal morphology / Kira Gor and Tatiana Chernigovskaya -- Investigating the role and effects of form-focused instruction -- Teaching marked linguistic structures--more about the acquisition of relative clauses by Arab learners of English / Ahlem Ammar and Patsy M. Lightbown -- The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit form-focussed instruction / Nina Spada, Patsy M. Lightbown and Joanna L. White -- Rule complexity and the efficacy of explicit grammar instruction / Alex Housen, Michel Pierrard, and Siska van Daele -- Focus on formS as a means of improving accurate oral production / Ronald Sheen -- Instructed second language vocabulary learning / Batia Laufer -- Investigating the role and effects interaction and communication-focused instruction -- Negative feedback and learner uptake in analytic foreign language teaching / Katja Lochtman -- Noticing and the role of interaction in promoting language learning / Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder -- Interactional strategies for interlanguage communication / Maria del Pilar García Mayo -- Assessment of the role of communication tasks in the development of second language oral production skills / Peter Griggs -- Language learning in content-based instruction / Heini-Marja Järvinen -- Effects of teacher discourse on learner discourse in a second language classroom / Tsuyoshi Kida -- Comparing the effects of instructed and naturalistic L2 acquisition contexts -- Second language acquisition in a study abroad context / Martin Howard -- The effect of type of acquisition context on perception and self-reported use of swearwords in the L2, L3, L4 and L5 / Jean-Marc Dewaele |
| Summary |
This book gives an overview of current research on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). Data-based studies included in this book deal with the acquisition of specific linguistic phenomena (e.g., verb and noun morphology, lexicon, clause structures) in a range of target languages (e.g., English, French, German, Russian) from a variety of instructional settings involving different instructional approaches (e.g., traditional foreign language classes, immersion classes, intensive ESL classes, content and language integrated language classes). Several of the chapters focus on the ro |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Second language acquisition.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- General.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Second language acquisition
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Tweede taal.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Housen, Alex, 1964-
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Pierrard, M.
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| ISBN |
3110197375 |
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9783110197372 |
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9783110179705 |
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3110179709 |
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