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Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (Paperback)
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Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (Paperback)
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In this book the authors address five central problems in the study
of second language acquisition: transfer, staged development,
cross-learner systematicity, incompleteness and variability. The
book begins with a definition of each of these areas and an
indication of why they are important for understanding SLA. In
Chapters 2-4 attempts to explain these phenomena via early
linguistic, sociolinguistic, and cognitive approaches are examined.
It is argued that they all fail because they attach insufficient
importance to the nature of language. In Chapters 5-9 the central
problems are approached from the perspective of Universal Grammar
and parametric variation: it is considered that this approach
provides greater insights into transfer, staged development,
cross-learner systematicity and into some aspects of completeness,
but that it has difficulty accounting for variability. Variability,
it is then argued in Chapters 10-13, is more attributable to
factors related to language use and language processing. The most
important of these are: the learner's need to develop hypotheses
from data where Universal Grammar may not be accessible or
applicable; the learner's need to transform linguistic knowledge
into the productions required for language processing in real-time;
and the learner's need to communicate effectively with an
incomplete linguistic system. The variability observed in second
language learners who began learning after the age of seven is
attributed to the use of multiple knowledge sources and the
different kinds of productions which may underlie second language
use. The strands making up this argument are then brought together
in Chapter 14 in a single model and indications of further
directions for research are provided.
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