Full Description
Currents in Language Learning provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applications in first, second, and bi/multilingual language acquisition in naturalistic and tutored contexts.
Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from linguistics, psychology, education, anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, and neuroscience
Brings together a team of leading linguists to explore current issues
Develops research agendas in areas including: progress and relevance in second language acquisition; usage-based linguistics; age effects in language learning; second language pragmatics; vocabulary knowledge; transfer of learning in second language instruction; language, literacy, and culture; academic language development in schools; practice theory; and evolutionary perspectives on language
Contents
Foreword v
Lourdes Ortega
SLA for the 21st Century: Disciplinary Progress, Transdisciplinary Relevance, and the Bi/multilingual Turn 1-24
Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, and Ute Römer
Usage-Based Language: Investigating the Latent Structures That Underpin Acquisition 25- 51
Robert M. DeKeyser
Age Effects in Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones Toward Better Understanding 52- 67
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
DevelopingL2Pragmatics 68- 86
Scott Jarvis
Capturing the Diversity in Lexical Diversity 87- 106
Diane Larsen-Freeman
Transfer of Learning Transformed 107- 129
Alister Cumming
Multiple Dimensions of Academic Language and Literacy Development 130- 152
Mary J. Schleppegrell
The Role of Metalanguage in Supporting Academic Language Development 153- 170
Richard F. Young and Alice C. Astarita
Practice Theory in Language Learning 171- 189
John H. Schumann
Societal Responses to Adult Difficulties in L2 Acquisition: Toward an Evolutionary Perspective on Language Acquisition 190- 209
Subject Index 210-215
