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Book Synopsis* Presents an integrated discussion of key and sometimes controversial issues in second language acquisition research. * Discusses the biological underpinnings of SLA, the driving forces and constraints on SLA, research methods, and the status of SLA as a cognitive science.
Trade Review"Catherine Doughty and Michael Long have emerged as two of the most knowledgeable, authoritative, and sanest voices in the current contentious debates over truth claims in second language acquisition. Their stewardship of the chapters in this volume – and authorship of two articles plus an overview and an interesting afterword that treats SLA as cognitive science – has produced some very strong critical summaries of several central ideas in these debates. The range and depth of many of the chapters is great and I have learned much from revisiting subjects I thought I knew well, such as transfer, fossilization, and individual variation."
Larry Selinker, New York University
"Arguing that SLA research should be viewed as a branch of cognitive science, the editors have served up a feast for, and about, the mind. This Handbook will be read, consulted, and referred to again and again." Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan
"The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition lives up to its name: it provides a remarkable overview of the field, whose future the editors intelligently advocate to be an integral constituent of cognitive science. A rainbow of topics and theoretical stances promises much stimulation to a wide readership. The volume will no doubt serve as a highly appreciated resource for novice and expert alike." Bonnie D. Schwartz, University of Hawaii
"Highly recommended." Choice
Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii
Acknowledgments x
I Overview 1
1 The Scope of Inquiry and Goals of SLA 3
Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long
II Capacity and Representation 17
2 On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language 19
Lydia White
3 The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar 43
William O’Grady
4 Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure 63
Nick C. Ellis
5 Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals: The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations 104
Judith F. Kroll and Gretchen Sunderman
6 Near-Nativeness 130
Antonella Sorace
III Environments for Sla 153
7 Language Socialization in SLA 155
Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and Sarah Nielsen
8 Social Context 178
Jeff Siegel
9 Input and Interaction 224
Susan M. Gass
10 Instructed SLA: Constraints, Compensation, and Enhancement 256
Catherine J. Doughty
IV Processes in Sla 311
11 Implicit and Explicit Learning 313
Robert DeKeyser
12 Incidental and Intentional Learning 349
Jan H. Hulstijn
13 Automaticity and Second Languages 382
Norman Segalowitz
14 Variation 409
Suzanne Romaine
15 Cross-Linguistic Influence 436
Terence Odlin
16 Stabilization and Fossilization in Interlanguage Development 487
Michael H. Long
V Biological and Psychological Constraints 537
17 Maturational Constraints in SLA 539
Kenneth Hyltenstam and Niclas Abrahamsson
18 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning 589
Zoltán Dörnyei and Peter Skehan
19 Attention and Memory during SLA 631
Peter Robinson
20 Language Processing Capacity 679
Manfred Pienemann
VI Research Methods 715
21 Defining and Measuring SLA 717
John Norris and Lourdes Ortega
22 Data Collection in SLA Research 762
Craig Chaudron
VII The State of Sla 829
23 SLA Theory: Construction and Assessment 831
Kevin R. Gregg
24 SLA and Cognitive Science 866
Michael H. Long and Catherine J. Doughty
Index 871
