Full Description
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the studies presented are largely multi-lingual and cross-cultural, as befits the make-up of modern-day Europe. At the same time, the work demonstrates sophisticated awareness of scholarly insights from around the world. The EUROSLA yearbook presents a selection each year of the very best research from the annual conference. Submissions are reviewed and professionally edited, and only those of the highest quality are selected. Contributions are in English.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Introduction; 3. Articles; 4. Accounting for English article interpretation by L2 speakers (by Hawkins, Roger); 5. Verb morphology in second language versus third language acquisition: The representation of regular and irregular past participles in English-Spanish and Chinese-English-Spanish interlanguages (by Leung, Yan-kit Ingrid); 6. Specificity in Spanish: The syntax/semantics interface in SLA (by Borgonovo, Claudia); 7. Advanced grammars and pragmatic processes: Exploring the interface (by Liszka, Sarah Ann); 8. Inversion as an artifact: The acquisition of topicalization in child L1- and adult L2-Dutch (by Jordens, Peter); 9. Habits and rabbits: Word associations and the L2 lexicon (by Fitzpatrick, Tess); 10. The lexical decision task as a measure of L2 lexical proficiency (by Harrington, Michael); 11. Motivating multiword units: Rationale, mnemonic benefits, and cognitive style variables (by Boers, Frank); 12. Language anxiety and language processing (by Mihaljevic Djigunovic, Jelena); 13. The effect of extraversion on oral L2 proficiency (by Daele, Siska van); 14. The socio-educational model of Second Language Acquisition: A research paradigm (by Gardner, Robert C.)
