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.

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