Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Julia Herschensohn and Martha Young-Scholten
  • Part I: Theory and practice
  • Theories of language from a critical perspective / Jan Koster
  • History of the study of second language acquisition / Margaret Thomas
  • Theoretical approaches / Florence Myles
  • Scope and research methodologies / Melinda Whong and Clare Wright
  • Part II: Internal ingredients
  • The role of the native language / Claire Foley and Suzanne Flynn
  • Learning mechanisms and automatization / Richard Towell
  • Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus / Bonnie D. Schwartz and Rex A. Sprouse
  • Learner internal psychological factors / Jean-Marc Dewaele
  • Alphabetic literacy and adult SLA / Elaine Tarone, Kit Hansen and Martha Bigelow
  • Part III: External ingredients
  • Negotiated input and output/interaction / Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo and Eva Alcon Soler
  • Second language identity construction / Elizabeth R. Miller and Ryuko Kubota
  • Socialization / Georges Daniel Veronique
  • Variation / Vera Regan
  • Electronic interaction and resources / Astrid Ensslin and Cedric Krummes
  • Part IV: Biological factors
  • Age related effects / Julia Herschensohn
  • Childhood second language acquisition / Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva
  • Incomplete L1 acquisition / Silvina Montrul
  • Third language acquisition / Jason Rothman, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and Kees de Bot
  • Language processing / Alice Foucart and Cheryl Frenck-Mestre
  • Affect and the brain / Andrea Mates and Anna Joaquin
  • Part V: Properties of interlanguage systems
  • The lexicon / James Milton and Giovanna Donzelli
  • Semantics / Laurent Dekydtspotter
  • Discourse and pragmatics / Roumyana Slabakova
  • Morphosyntax / Tania Ionin
  • Phonology and speech / Ellen Broselow and Yoonjung Kang
  • Part VI: Models of development
  • Explaining change in transition grammars / Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott and Roger Hawkins
  • Stage-like development and organic grammar / Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten
  • Emergentism, connectionism and complexity / Randal Holme
  • Input, input processing and focus on form / Joe Barcroft and Wynne Wong
  • Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development / Amy Snyder Ohta
  • Nativelike and non-nativelike attainment / Donna Lardiere.
  • Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Scope and overview; Part I Theory and practice; Introduction to Part I; 1 Theories of language from a critical perspective; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Chomskyan revolution; 1.3 Rediscovering the lexicon; 1.4 Not quite a revolution; 1.5 A partial consensus; 1.6 Minimalism and the biolinguistic program; 1.7 Reconciling biology with culture; 1.8 Concluding remarks; 2 History of the study of second language acquisition; 2.1 Introduction: when does the history of second language begin?
  • 2.2 History of the role of a learner's native language in second language acquisition2.2.1 Prehistory of the role of L1; 2.2.2 Role of L1 in twentieth-century structuralism; 2.2.3 Reconceptualizing the role of L1 in the 1970s-1980s; 2.2.4 Late twentieth-century research on the role of L1; 2.3 History of research on the inherent capacities of second language learners; 2.3.1 "Cartesian linguistics"; 2.3.2 Emergence of the notion of interlanguage; 2.3.3 Reappraising the basis of L2 learners' capacities; 2.4 History of the role of social context in L2 acquisition.
  • 2.4.1 Social interaction in L2 acquisition: fourth versus twentieth century2.4.2 Conceptualization of cognitive versus social factors in L2 learning; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 Theoretical approaches; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Why theories?; 3.2.1 Purpose of SLA theories; 3.2.2 SLA research agendas; 3.2.3 Research findings; 3.3 The main theoretical families; 3.3.1 Linguistic approaches; Domain of inquiry; Views on the nature of language; View of the learning process; View of the language learner; Linguistic approaches and SLA research agendas/findings.
  • Conclusion: contribution of formal linguistic approaches to theory building3.3.2 Cognitive approaches; Domain of inquiry; Views on the nature of language; View of the learning process; View of the language learner; Cognitive approaches and SLA research agendas/findings; Conclusion: contribution of cognitive approaches to SLA theory building; 3.3.3 Interactionist, sociolinguistic and sociocultural approaches; Domain of inquiry; Views on the nature of language; View of the learning process; Views of the language learner.
  • Interactional/sociolinguistic/sociocultural approaches and research agendas/findingsConclusion: contribution of interactionist/sociolinguistic/sociocultural approaches to SLA theory building; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Scope and research methodologies; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Biological factors; 4.3 Cognitive factors; 4.4 Pedagogical factors; 4.5 Social factors; 4.6 Conclusion; Part II Internal ingredients; Introduction to Part II; 5 The role of the native language; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 From Contrastive Analysis to Creative Construction; 5.3 Types of developmental influence.