Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning / / ed. by Teresa Cadierno, Søren Wind Eskildsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Barraja-Rohan, Anne-Marie,; Cadierno, Teresa,; Dahl, Anne,; Ellis, Nick C.,; Eskildsen, Søren W.,; Farukh, Ammara,; Kusyk, Meryl,; Li, Peiwen,; MacWhinney, Brian,; McDonough, Kim,; Ortega, Lourdes,; Pekarek Doehler, Simona,; Phuong Nguyen, Hong Thi,; Pochon-Berger, Evelyne,; Roehr-Brackin, Karen,; Sockett, Geoffrey,; Trofimovich, Pavel,; Verspoor, Marjolijn,; Vulchanova, Mila,; Wagner, Johannes,
• HerausgeberIn: Cadierno, Teresa,; Eskildsen, Søren Wind,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning – perspectives that we conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Advancing usage-based approaches to L2 studies -- Part I: Perspectives on usage in L2 learning and teaching -- Multidimensional SLA -- Cognitive and Social Aspects of Learning from Usage -- Designing for Language Learning in the Wild: Creating social infrastructures for second language learning -- Part II: The role of frequency and exposure in L2 learning -- Structural priming and the acquisition of novel form-meaning mappings -- Input and language competence in early-start foreign language classrooms -- Online informal learning of English: frequency effects in the uptake of chunks of language from participation in web-based activities -- Part III: Development of L2 interactional and constructional competence -- Long-term development in an instructed adult L2 learner: Usage-based and complexity theory applied -- On the development of motion constructions in four learners of L2 English -- The development of L2 interactional competence: evidence from turn-taking organization, sequence organization, repair organization and preference organization -- Part IV: Usage-based L2 pedagogy -- “I told you”: Storytelling development of a Japanese learning English as a Second Language -- A Dynamic Usage-based Approach to Second Language Teaching -- L1, quantity of exposure to L2, and reading disability as factors in L2 literacy skills -- Part V: Synthesis -- Usage-based SLA: A Research Habitus Whose Time Has Come -- Subject index