The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Editors: Herschensohn, Julia and Young-Scholten, Martha
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-10-700771-0
Category: Language & Literature - Linguistics
Image Count:
37
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This comprehensive handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). Its multi-perspective synopsis on recent developments in SLA research provides significant contributions by established experts and widely recognized younger talent.
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Table of Contents
- About The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Julia Herschensohn; Martha Young-Scholten
- Part I Theory and practice
- 1 Theories of language from a critical perspective - Jan Koster
- 2 History of the study of second language acquisition - Margaret Thomas
- 3 Theoretical approaches - Florence Myles
- 4 Scope and research methodologies - Melinda Whong; Clare Wright
- Part II Internal ingredients
- 5 The role of the native language - Claire Foley; Suzanne Flynn
- 6 Learning mechanisms and automatization - Richard Towell
- 7 Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus - Bonnie D. Schwartz; Rex A. Sprouse
- 8 Learner-internal psychological factors - Jean-Marc Dewaele
- 9 Alphabetic literacy and adult SLA - Elaine Tarone; Kit Hansen; Martha Bigelow
- Part III External ingredients
- 10 Negotiated input and output / interaction - María del Pilar García Mayo; Eva Alcón Soler
- 11 Second language identity construction - Elizabeth R. Miller; Ryuko Kubota
- 12 Socialization - Georges Daniel Véronique
- 13 Variation - Vera Regan
- 14 Electronic interaction and resources - Astrid Ensslin; Cedric Krummes
- Part IV Biological factors
- 15 Age-related effects - Julia Herschensohn
- 16 Childhood second language acquisition - Belma Haznedar; Elena Gavruseva
- 17 Incomplete L1 acquisition - Silvina Montrul
- 18 Third language acquisition - Jason Rothman; Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro; Kees de Bot
- 19 Language processing - Alice Foucart; Cheryl Frenck-Mestre
- 20 Affect and the brain - Andrea W. Mates; Anna Dina L. Joaquin
- Part V Properties of interlanguage systems
- 21 The lexicon - James Milton; Giovanna Donzelli
- 22 Semantics - Laurent Dekydtspotter
- 23 Discourse and pragmatics - Roumyana Slabakova
- 24 Morphosyntax - Tania Ionin
- 25 Phonology and speech - Ellen Broselow; Yoonjung Kang
- Part VI Models of development
- 26 Explaining change in transition grammars - Michael Sharwood Smith; John Truscott; Roger Hawkins
- 27 Stagelike development and Organic Grammar - Anne Vainikka; Martha Young-Scholten
- 28 Emergentism, connectionism and complexity - Randal Holme
- 29 Input, input processing and focus on form - Joe Barcroft; Wynne Wong
- 30 Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development - Amy Snyder Ohta
- 31 Nativelike and non-nativelike attainment - Donna Lardiere
- Appendix: Examples of structured input activities
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected references