Description
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters focusing on vocabulary, morphosyntactic categories, semantic structures, and phonetic and phonological structures feature in the volume, as do over 20 languages, in order to offer new insights into both theoretical and empirical issues in CLI, including the consequences of great or little similarity in structures between languages. The relevance of CLI research for teaching is discussed in a number of chapters, as is the phenomenon of multilingualism. The collection will appeal to researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, teachers and professionals interested in the field of CLI in SLA.
Trade ReviewThe best minds working on crosslinguistic influence are gathered in this collection. The result is a fascinating empirical and intellectual journey of this field that all second language acquisition and bilingualism researchers must read!
-- Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, USA
To improve our understanding of the role and nature of crosslinguistic influence remains a key task for research on SLA and bilingualism studies. This exciting volume presents new perspectives on this issue by leading scholars in the field, covering a wide range of topics, methods, and theoretical positions. It will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students alike.
-- Marianne Gullberg, Lund University, Sweden
Compared to more substantial anthologies on the market, this collection in affordable, thought-provoking and topical, earning its place on personal bookshelves as much as within institutional libraries.
-- Simon Williams, University of Sussex, UK * BAAL News, 110, 2017 *
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Terence Odlin: Was There Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?
2. Vivian Cook: Transfer and the Relationship between the Languages of Multi-competence
3. Håkan Ringbom: Comprehension, Learning and Production of Foreign Languages: The Role of Transfer
4. John A. Lucy: The Implications of Linguistic Relativity for Language Learning
5. Rena Helms-Park and Vedran Dronjic: Crosslinguistic Lexical Influence: Cognate Facilitation
6. Rosa Alonso Alonso, Teresa Cadierno and Scott Jarvis: Crosslinguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Spatial Prepositions in English as a Foreign Language
7. Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Xu Ziyan: Can Classroom Learners use Statistical Learning? A New Perspective on Motion Event Construal in a Second Language
8. Monika Ekiert and Zhaohong Han: L1-fraught Difficulty: The Case of L2 Acquisition of English Articles by Slavic Speakers
9. Panos Athanasopoulos and Bastien Boutonnet: Learning Grammatical Gender in a Second Language Changes
Categorization of Inanimate Objects: Replications and New Evidence from English Learners of L2 French
10. Ulrike Jessner, Manon Megens and Stefanie Graus: Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition
11. Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek: Contemporary Perspectives in Crosslinguistic Influence
