UID:
almafu_9960119219702883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 191 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-511-81505-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
Uniform Title:
Zweitsprachenerwerb.
Content:
This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreover, it is only through an understanding of these principles that foreign language teaching can become maximally effective. In the first part of his book, Wolfgang Klein provides a critical assessment of the state of the art at the time. The second part, 'from the learner's point of view', is devoted to four central problems which anyone learning a second language (either through everyday communication or in the classroom) is faced with, and whose solution constitutes the acquisition process. This accessible introduction provides students of linguistics and applied linguistics and anyone concerned with foreign language teaching with a real understanding of the fundamental issues in the field.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- The process of language acquisition -- Some forms of language acquisition, some fundamental facts, some focal issues, some well-known theories -- 1.1 First language acquisition -- 1.2 From first to second language acquisition -- 1.3 Second language acquisition -- 1.4 Re-acquisition -- 1.5 Theories of second language acquisition -- Six dimensions of language acquisition -- 2.1 A global view -- 2.2 Propensity -- 2.3 Language faculty -- 2.4 Access -- 2.5 The structure of the process -- 2.6 Tempo of acquisition -- 2.7 End state -- 2.8 Summary -- Some consequences for foreign language instruction -- From the learner's point of view -- The learner's four tasks -- 4.1 The problem of analysis -- 4.2 The problem of synthesis -- 4.3 The embedding problem -- 4.4 The matching problem -- The problem of analysis -- 5.1 The available knowledge -- 5.2 Structural properties of the input -- 5.3 Example 1: Repetition test for personal pronouns -- 5.4 Example 2: Translation test for modal verbs -- 5.5 Example 3: Prefabricated patterns -- The problem of synthesis -- 6.1 The syntax of basic learner varieties -- 6.2 Further advances in synthesis -- 6.3 Conclusions -- The embedding problem -- 7.1 Some devices of context-dependency -- 7.2 How learners express temporality -- 7.3 Conclusion -- The matching problem -- 8.1 General issues -- 8.2 Types of (self-)control -- 8.3 Critical rules or: What is being matched against what? -- 8.4 Self-corrections -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-31702-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-26879-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815058
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