Description
Book SynopsisPortraits of the L2 User treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an innovative overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and methods, seen from a common perspective.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Contributors
1 Vivian Cook: Background to the L2 User
2 Annette de Groot: Lexical Representation and Lexical Processing in the L2 User
3 Roy Major: The Phonology of the L2 User
4 Suzanne Flynn and Barbara Lust: A Minimalist Approach to L2 Solves a Dilemma of UG
5 Clive Perdue: Development of L2 Functional Use
6 Ellen Bialystok: Cognitive Processes of L2 Users
7 Fred Genesee: Portrait of the Bilingual Child
8 Franco Fabbro: The Neurolinguistics of L2 Users
9 Jean-Marc Dewaele: Individual Differences in L2 Fluency: The Effect of Neurobiological Correlates
10 Kees de Bot and Madeleine Hulsen: Language Attrition: Tests, Self-assessments and Perceptions
11 Aneta Pavlenko: Poststructuralist Approaches to the Study of Social Factors in Second Language Learning and Use
12 Francisco Gomes de Matos: Second Language Learners’ Rights
13 Vivian Cook: Language Teaching Methodology and the L2 User Perspective
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