Full Description
This book includes interviews with fourteen internationally-acclaimed leading figures in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), who speak on seminal issues in the field as well as their own contributions to SLA scholarship. As well as covering the contributors' backgrounds and academic achievements, the interviews also delve into their areas of expertise, current theoretical and practical considerations, and contemporary questions, developments and challenges in SLA. The author probes their views on current topics including input and interaction, vocabulary acquisition, teaching pronunciation, writing development, syntactic processing, multilingualism, L1 attrition, complex dynamic systems, processing instruction, instructed second language acquisition, and technology in language teaching. An introduction by the author draws out the key themes and debates in the field today, and highlights areas for future research and further exploration, and a foreword is provided by Rod Ellis. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Applied Linguistics, Teacher Education and Methodology, and Second and Foreign Language Education.
Contents
Chapter 1: SLA at 55: What are the key issues?.- Chapter 2: Input and Interaction in SLA: An Interview with Susan Gass.- Chapter 3: Interaction and Feedback in SLA: An Interview with Alison Mackey.- Chapter 4: Classroom Interaction and SLA: An Interview with Masatoshi Sato.- Chapter 5: Teaching Pronunciation and SLA: An Interview with Tracey Derwing.- Chapter 6: Vocabulary Acquisition and Pedagogy in SLA: An Interview with Norbert Schmitt.- Chapter 7: Morphosyntactic Processing in SLA: An Interview with Alison Gabriele.- Chapter 8: Emergentist Syntax and SLA: An Interview with William O'Grady.- Chapter 9: Writing Development in SLA: An Interview with Rosa Manchon.- Chapter 10: First Language Attrition and SLA: An Interview with Monika Schmid.- Chapter 11: Bilingualism and SLA: An Interview with Antonella Sorace.- Chapter 12: Complex Dynamic Systems and Bi-/Multilingualism in SLA: An Interview with Kees de Bot.- Chapter 13: Instructed Second Language Acquisition: An Interview with ShawnLoewen.- Chapter 14: Processing Instruction and SLA: An Interview with Alessandro Benati.- Chapter 15: Digital Technology and SLA: An Interview with Glenn Stockwell.
