Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Social Context: Crosslinguistic PerspectivesVera Regan Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Social Context contains new research in the area of social context and second language acquisition. In the past twenty years, an explosion of research is resulting in a better understanding of the total process of acquisition from multiple perspectives: cognitive, linguistic and social. Recently, the important implications of social factors in acquisition are being recognized. The book contains work by leading researchers in the field. It deals with an unusually wide variety of target and source languages, including English-speaking children acquiring Irish, Chinese adults acquiring Hungarian, Moroccan children acquiring Dutch and Dutch learners acquiring French. |
From inside the book
Try this search over all volumes: patients
Results 1-0 of 0
Contents
Chinese speakers of Hungarian | 32 |
The Naíonra experience | 46 |
Temporal reference in story retellings Comparison between French | 62 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Abroad group activities agreement analysis Applied Linguistics bilingual Bourhis Cambridge child classroom code-switching cognitive communication strategies context conversation Dechert Dewaele differences discourse dysfluent English errors evaluations Excerpt extraversion Eysenck factors filled pauses fluency fluent free anaphor French G₁ G₂ speakers Gaeltacht Gass gender Giles grammar grammaticalization Hungarian identity immersion immigrants inflection input interlanguage interlocutors interviews Irish L2 learning learners lexical Lightbown loanwords lone English-origin nouns mark of understanding markers masculine means modifier naíonra native speakers negotiation Newbury House nominal non-nominative non-standard marking overt perspective Pica Poplack pre-school production proficiency psycholinguistic psychological Raupach reference relative clauses Republic of Ireland scores second language acquisition second language learning sentences signals significant social Social Psychology sociolinguistic speech rate standard Ukrainian Studies in Second study abroad subjects syntactic Table target language temporal Ukrainian nouns utterances variables variation words/minute