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Studies In Language Learning & Spanish Linquistics, In Honor of Tracy D. Terrell is a Festschrift, a collection of scholarly articles that was published in memory of Tracy D. Terrell, late of the University of California, San Diego. Tracy Terrell was an innovative practitioner and researcher in the areas of Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching Methods. He is best known as creator of The Natural Approach and as co-author of Dos mundos, Deux mondes and Kontakte, the very successful beginning texts for Spanish, French and German which are based on that approach. Language professors and researchers from around the country have contributed to this publication, which will be of primary interest to libraries and to scholars in language teaching methodology.
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This book provides an alternative to the grammar debate in second language acquisition theory and teaching. Accepting that language acquisition is at least partially input dependent, the author asks how grammatical form is processed in the input by second language learners and is it possible to assist this in ways that help the learner to create richer grammatical intake. He answers these questions and explains why traditional paradigms are not psycholinguistically motivated. Drawing on research from both first and second language acquisition, he outlines a model for input processing in second language acquisition that helps to account for how learners construct grammatical systems. He then uses this model to motivate processing instruction, a type of grammar instruction in which learners are engaged in making form-meaning connections during particular input activities.
Que te parece? is an exciting and innovative new program suitable for any communicative or proficiency-based intermediate Spanish course. Both the grammar and the activities are driven by the content, so that they are always presented in an authentic context. The program offers a dynamic approach to the material by incorporating unique presentations of literature, culture, and the fine arts. This edition includes an interactive CD-ROM that further explores the fine art and literature from the Spanish-speaking world, as well as the video to accompany the text.
This volume contains 30 papers selected from two conferences which were held jointly at the Pennsylvania State University in 2005: the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 8th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. The papers are organized into sections on theoretical syntax, phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition and teaching, acquisition of syntax, and sociolinguistics.