Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Michel Pierrard

ISBN 10: 3110179709 / ISBN 13: 9783110179705

Editore: De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton, 2005

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies. Many different types of data serve as the basis for analysis, including reaction times measurements, global test scores, paper and pencil measures, introspective comments, grammaticality judgements, as well as textual data (elicited or naturalistic, oral or written, relating to comprehension or production). Some studies rely on extensive quantification of data, while others may favour a more qualitative and hermeneutic analytic approach. Many of these issues and methods are exemplified by the contributions to this volume. Data-based studies included here 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 settings involving different instructional approaches (e.g. traditional foreign language classes, immersion classes, intensive ESL classes, content and language integrated language classes). Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the productivity and diversity of current research on instructed second language acquisition. As such they serve as a valuable resource for researchers in SLA, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and language education.

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• Titolo: Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition
• Editore: De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110179709
• ISBN 13: 9783110179705
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 160 A x 37 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 37 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1006 grammi

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Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies. Many different types of data serve as the basis for analysis, including reaction times measurements, global test scores, paper and pencil measures, introspective comments, grammaticality judgements, as well as textual data (elicited or naturalistic, oral or written, relating to comprehension or production). Some studies rely on extensive quantification of data, while others may favour a more qualitative and hermeneutic analytic approach.
Many of these issues and methods are exemplified by the contributions to this volume. Data-based studies included here 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 settings involving different instructional approaches (e.g. traditional foreign language classes, immersion classes, intensive ESL classes, content and language integrated language classes). Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the productivity and diversity of current research on instructed second language acquisition. As such they serve as a valuable resource for researchers in SLA, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and language education.

Informazioni sull?autore

Alex Housen is Lecturer at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Michel Pierrard is Professor of Linguistics at the  University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)