Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition / Edition 1

by Alex Housen, Michel Pierrard

Overview

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 times measurements, global test scores, paper and pencil measures, introspective comments, grammaticality judgements, as well as textual data (elicited or naturalistic, oral or written, relating to comprehension or production). Some studies rely on extensive quantification of data, while others may favour a more qualitative and hermeneutic analytic approach.
Many of these issues and methods are exemplified by the contributions to this volume. Data-based studies included here deal with the acquisition of specific linguistic phenomena (e.g. verb and noun morphology, lexicon, clause structures) in a range of target languages (e.g. English, French, German, Russian) from a variety of settings involving different instructional approaches (e.g. traditional foreign language classes, immersion classes, intensive ESL classes, content and language integrated language classes). Collectively, the chapters in this book illustrate the productivity and diversity of current research on instructed second language acquisition. As such they serve as a valuable resource for researchers in SLA, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and language education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110179705
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/18/2005
Series:	Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , #25
Pages:	577
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Alex Housen is Lecturer at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Michel Pierrard is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Editorial Reviews

"The works in this collection make a valuable contribution to instructed SLA research."
Shannon Sauro in: Studies in second language acquistion 4/2006

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