Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition / / ed. by Alex Housen, Michel Pierrard.

Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies. Many different types of data serve as the basis for analysis, including reaction...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2005
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.) :; Figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Investigating Instructed Second Language
  • Acquisition
  • Investigating cognitive and processing mechanisms
  • in instructed SLA
  • Instructed learners’ fluency and implicit/explicit
  • language processes
  • Psycholinguistic aspects of gender acquisition in
  • instructed GFL learning
  • Language analytic ability and oral production in a
  • second language: Is there a connection?
  • Formal instruction and the acquisition of verbal
  • morphology
  • Investigating the role and effects of form-focused
  • instruction
  • Teaching marked linguistic structures – more about
  • the acquisition of relative clauses by Arab learners of English
  • The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit
  • form-focused instruction
  • Structure complexity and the efficacy of explicit
  • grammar instruction
  • Focus on formS as a means of improving accurate
  • oral production
  • Instructed Second Language Vocabulary Learning: The
  • fault in the ‘default hypothesis’
  • Investigating the role and effects interaction and
  • Communication-Focused Instruction
  • Negative feedback and learner uptake in analytic
  • foreign language teaching
  • Noticing and the role of interaction in promoting
  • language learning
  • Interactional strategies for interlanguage
  • communication: Do they provide evidence for attention to form?
  • Assessment of the role of communication tasks in
  • the development of second language oral production skills
  • Language learning in content-based
  • instruction
  • Effects of teacher discourse on learner discourse
  • in a second language classroom
  • Comparing the effects of instructed and
  • naturalistic L2 acquisition contexts
  • Second language acquisition in a study abroad
  • context: A comparative investigation of the effects of study abroad and
  • foreign language instruction on the L2 learner’s grammatical
  • development
  • The effect of type of acquisition context on
  • perception and self-reported use of swearwords in L2, L3, L4 and
  • L5
  • Backmatter