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Author: Richard W. Schmidt
Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 082481794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents research into the learning of Spanish, Japanese, Finnish, Hawaiian, and English as a second language, with additional comments and examples from French, German, and miniature artificial languages.
Author: Wai Meng Chan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1614510938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second language (L2) learning achievement and why do many learners, though proficient first language speakers, not succeed in learning a L2? The papers in this book explore and challenge the three key factors in individual difference research: language aptitude, language learning strategies and motivation.
Author: Joara M. Bergsleithner
Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0983581665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume celebrates the life and groundbreaking work of Richard Schmidt, the developer of the influential Noticing Hypothesis in the field of second language acquisition. The 19 chapters encompass a compelling collection of cutting-edge research studies exploring such constructs as noticing, attention, and awareness from multiple perspectives, which expand, fine tune, sometimes support, and sometimes challenge Schmidt's seminal ideas and take research on noticing in exciting new directions.
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002-09-27
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9027297517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining these interactions is fundamentally important to theories of instructed SLA, and for effective L2 pedagogy. This collection is the first to explore this important issue in contemporary task-based, immersion, and communicative pedagogic settings. In the first section, leading experts in individual differences research describe recent advances in theories of intelligence, L2 aptitude, motivation, anxiety and emotion, and the relationship of native language abilities to L2 learning. In the second section, these theoretical insights are applied to empirical studies of individual differences-treatment interactions in classroom learning, experimental studies of the effects of focus on form and incidental learning, and studies of naturalistic versus instructed SLA.
Author: Robert DeKeyser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-03-12
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521684040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on 'practice' from a theoretical perspective and includes implications for the classroom.
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: ZhaoHong Han
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-29
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1316123332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe initial state of learner spontaneous input processing in foreign language learning, as well as the extent to which this processing leads to intake, is of central importance to theoreticians and teachers alike. In this collection of original studies, leading experts examine a range of issues, such as what learners do when faced with a language they know little or nothing about, what factors appear to mediate beginning learners' processing of input, how beginners treat two types of information - form and meaning - in the input, and how adult cognition deals with stimulus frequency at this initial stage. This book provides a microscopic view on learners' processing of foreign language input at the early stages of learning, and evaluates a variety of methodological options within the context of ab initio processing of foreign languages other than English, such as German, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, and Spanish.
Author: Ronald Leow
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-11-13
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1501501097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of technology for second language learning is ever more present. This book offers a unique four-prong approach (theoretical, methodological, empirical, and pedagogical) to current and prospective uses of technology in L2 learning from a psycholinguistic perspective. It is accessible to teachers, graduate students, and professors of all disciplines interested in technology and L2 learning.
Author: Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-08-30
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 3642201415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book contains a selection of papers reflecting cutting-edge developments in the field of learning and teaching second and foreign languages. The contributions are devoted to such issues as classroom-oriented research, sociocultural aspects of language acquisition, individual differences in language learning, teacher development, new strands in second language acquisition research as well as methodological considerations. Because of its scope, the diversity of topics covered and the adoption of various theoretical perspectives, the volume is of interest not only to theorists and researchers but also to methodologists and practitioners, and can be used in courses for graduate students.
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 781
ISBN-13: 1136485589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is designed for use as a reference tool by students, researchers, teachers and professionals with an interest in SLA. The Encyclopedia has the following features: • 252 alphabetized entries written in an accessible style, including cross references to other related entries in the Encyclopedia and suggestions for further reading • Among these, 9 survey entries that cover the foundational areas of SLA in detail: Development in SLA, Discourse and Pragmatics in SLA, Individual Differences in SLA, Instructed SLA, Language and the Lexicon in SLA, Measuring and Researching SLA, Psycholingustics of SLA, Social and Sociocultural Approaches to SLA, Theoretical Constructs in SLA. • The rest of the entries cover all the major subdisciplines, methodologies and concepts of SLA, from “Accommodation” to the “ZISA project.” Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with an academic interest in SLA.
