Description
The study of “usage” has constituted a major line of second language learning research for decades now. The concept of usage, however, can be defined and studied in many different ways.
In this comprehensive, forward-looking text, international scholars from a variety of perspectives review and critically examine current conceptualizations of usage, learning, and their connections in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Bringing these diverse perspectives into conversation, Kevin McManus synthesizes the state of the art to set the agenda for new directions in theory-building and empirical SLA research.
This text will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers in SLA, applied linguistics, psychology and cognitive science, education, and related areas.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of contributors
1. Usage in second language acquisition
Kevin McManus
2. Corpus-linguistic approaches to usage in SLA
Stefanie Wulff
3. Multimodal resources and action: A conversation-analytic approach to SLA and usage
Søren Wind Eskildsen
4. Usage and variationist approaches to second language acquisition
Aarnes Gudmestad
5. What counts as usage in Dynamic Usage-Based models?
Marjolijn Verspoor and Hans-Jörg Schmid
6. Cognitive-linguistic approaches to SLA and usage
Han Luo
7. Usage in ISLA from a processing-based perspective
Ronald P. Leow
8. Skill acquisition theory: learning-to-use and usage for learning in SLA
Yuichi Suzuki
9. Synthesizing usage in second language acquisition
Kevin McManus
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