Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition

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Zhaohong Han, Terence Odlin
Multilingual Matters, 2006 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 214 pages
This volume, as a sequel to Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by Han (2004), brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization, a classic problem of second language acquisition. It covers a wide range of perspectives and issues. The analyses discussed herein address key concerns of many second language researchers and teachers with regard to just how far anyone can go in learning a new language.
 

Contents

Researching Fossilization and Second Language L2
21
Establishing Ultimate Attainment in a Particular
35
Can Grammaticality Judgment Be
56
Fossilization in L2 and
83
Child Second Language Acquisition and
100
Emergent Fossilization
134
Fossilization Social Context and Language Play
157
Why Not Fossilization
173
Index
211
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ZhaoHong Han is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests are in second language learnability and teachability. She has published in TESOL and applied linguistics journals and is the author of Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition (Multilingual Matters, 2004). Terence Odlin is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University. He has edited other volumes on language learning and language contact, and he is the author of Language Transfer as well as several articles on the same subject.

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