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Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are
usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never
operate alone. Bringing together key insights from
psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, Luna Filipovic presents a
new model of bilingual language processing that captures
bilingualism within and across minds. The model enables readers to
explain traditional puzzles in the field, and accounts for some
apparently contradictory reports in different studies. It shows how
theory can be applied in practice and how practice feeds back into
theory, with mutual benefits. Bilinguals are studied in action,
when they interact with other bilinguals or monolinguals, when they
recall witnessed events in real life and in the lab and when they
translate and interpret for the benefit of monolinguals. This
interdisciplinary take on bilingualism in action will lead to new
research on bilingualism itself, and to applications in forensic
linguistics and translation studies.
This volume introduces a new concept, 'criterial features', for the
learning, teaching and testing of English as a second language. The
work is based on research conducted within the English Profile
Programme at Cambridge University, using the Cambridge Learner
Corpus. The authors address the extent to which learners know the
grammar, lexicon and usage conventions of English at each level of
the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). These levels are
currently illustrated in functional terms with 'Can Do' statements.
Greater specificity and precision can be achieved by using the
tagged and parsed corpus, which enables researchers to identify
criterial features of the CEFR levels, i.e. properties that are
characteristic and indicative of L2 proficiency at each level. In
practical terms, once criterial features have been identified, the
grammatical and lexical properties of English can be presented to
learners more efficiently and in ways that are appropriate to their
levels.
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