Investigating second language acquisition/

Biographical note: Peter Jordens , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen and Frije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Josine A. Lallemann, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Jordens, Peter.; Lalleman, Josine
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin:
Publication Dates: [2010]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies on language acquisition 12
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110812831
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Summary: Biographical note: Peter Jordens , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen and Frije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Josine A. Lallemann, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.
Main description: The book concerns theoretical, interdisciplinary and methodological issues in L2 acquisition research. It gives an accurate and up-to-date overview of high quality work currently in progress in research methodology, processing, principles and parameters theory, phonology, the bilingual lexicon, input and instruction. The volume will have the purpose of a handbook for teachers, students and researchers in the area of second language acquisition. The aim is to provide the reader with an acquisition perspective on processes of second and foreign language learning.
Review text: Lalleman's opener is a ramblimg state-of-the-art-in SLA, coping with the difficult task of compression; this is followed by a neat and tidy summary of the history of tranfer with respect to the acquisition of grammar by Sharwood Smith - I Particulary enjoyed his apocryphal dialogue between a Ladonian, a Dulayo-Burtian, and a Selinkerian on the interpretation of 'No is true'. Eric Kellerman in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge, March 1999
Carrier Form: 1 online ressource(469 pages).
ISBN: 9783110812831
Index Number: P118
CLC: H09