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Learning to Request in a Second Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Learning to Request in a Second Language

This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a seven- year-old Japanese girl during her 17-month residence in Australia. The study focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she attempts to make requests and vary these to suit different goals and addressees. This book helps unravel features of pragmatic development in the child's interlanguage, a subject about which we yet know very little.

Learning to Request in a Second Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Learning to Request in a Second Language

"In this study the child's interaction with different interlocutors was audio- and video-recorded. These recorded data are supplemented by diary entries that supply information on how the child perceived her second language learning and how she became able to join in interactions as an accepted user of Australian English." "This book will appeal widely to professionals and students in the fields of pragmatics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, child language, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics and socio-linguistics, as well as to language teachers."--Jacket.

Age, Accent, and Experience in Second Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Age, Accent, and Experience in Second Language Acquisition

This work critically addresses the age debate in second language acquisition studies, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm that cognitive, social, and psychological factors contribute to attainment, and that biological influences must therefore be considered alongside these essential aspects of learner experience.

Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Language Acquisition

The authors examine the evidence relative to the idea that there is an age factor in first & second language acquisition & goes on to explore the various explanations that have been advanced to account for such evidence. Finally, it looks at educational ramifications of the age question.

Three is a Crowd?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Three is a Crowd?

The book describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illuminating picture of child linguistic competence. Written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, this book is for parents, educators and linguists in our predominantly, increasingly multilingual world.

Focus on French as a Foreign Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Focus on French as a Foreign Language

This book offers sharp new insights into the acquisition and use of French as a foreign language. The authors are specialists in their particular theoretical paradigms and focus on morphology, morpho-syntax, syntax, discourse, as well as fluency in the French interlanguage from beginners to advanced learners with different first languages.

Pragmatics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 606

Pragmatics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Childhood Bilingualism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 181

Childhood Bilingualism

This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.

Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition

This book is a systematic attempt to address the issue of fossilization in relation to a fundamental question in second language acquisition research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained exposure to the target language, adequate motivation to learn, and sufficient opportunity to practice?

Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Age and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language

"This book provides an overview of current research on the age factor in foreign language learning, addressing issues, which are critical for language planning. It presents new research on foreign language learning within bilingual communities in formal instruction settings focussing on syntax, phonology, writing, oral skills and learning strategies. "