Modelling and Assessing Second Language Acquisition (Multilingual Matters No.18)

774 Pages·1985·3.36 MB·English

by  Kenneth Hyltenstam

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title: Modelling and Assessing Second
Language Acquisition Multilingual
Matters (Series) ; 18
author: Hyltenstam, Kenneth.
publisher: Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin: 0905028422
print isbn13: 9780905028422
ebook isbn13: 9780585175959
language: English
subject Language and languages--Study and
teaching, Second language acquisition.
publication date: 1985
lcc: P53.M54 1985eb
ddc: 418/.007
subject: Language and languages--Study and
teaching, Second language acquisition.
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Modelling and Assessing Second Language
Acquisition

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Multilingual Matters
1. "Bilingualism: Basic Principles"
HUGO BAETENS BEARDSMORE
2. "Evaluating Bilingual Education: A Canadian Case Study"
MERRILL SWAIN AND SHARON LAPKIN
3. "Bilingual Children: Guidance for the Family"
GEORGE SAUNDERS
4. "Language Attitudes Among Arabic-French Bilinguals in Morocco"
ABDELÂLI BENTAHILA
5. "Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec"
RICHARD Y. BOURHIS (ed.)
6. "Bilingualism and Special Education"
JIM CUMMINS
7. "Bilingualism or Not: The Education of Minorities"
TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS
8. "An Ethnographic/Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Proficiency
Assessment"
CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
9. "Communicative Competence Approaches to Language Proficiency
Assessment:
Research and Application" CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
10. "Language Proficiency and Academic Achievement"
CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
11. "Pluralism: Cultural Maintenance and Evolution"
BRIAN BULLIVANT
12. "Placement Procedures in Bilingual Education: Education and Policy
Issues"
CHARLENE RIVERA (ed.)
13. "The Education of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in the OECD
Countries"
STACY CHURCHILL
14. "Learner Language and Language Learning"
CLAUS FAERCH, KIRSTEN HAASTRUP AND ROBERT PHILLIPSON
15. "Bilingual and Multicultural Education: Canadian Perspectives"
STAN SHAPSON AND VINCENT D'OYLEY (eds)
16. "Multiculturalism: The Changing Australian Paradigm"
LOIS FOSTER AND DAVID STOCKLEY
17. "Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child"
ALVINO FANTINI
18. "Modelling and Assessing Second Language Acquisition"
KENNETH HYLTENSTAM AND MANFRED PIENEMANN (eds)
19. "Aspects of Bilingualism in Wales"
COLIN BAKER
Please contact us for the latest information on recent and forthcoming
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Modelling and Assessing Second Language
Acquisition
Edited by
Kenneth Hyltenstam and
Manfred Pienemann
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS 18
MULTILINGUAL
MATTERS LTD

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Hyltenstam, Kenneth
Modelling and assessing second language
acquisition. (Multilingual matters; 18)
1. Language and languages Study and teaching
2. Language acquisition
I. Title II. Pienemann, Manfred
401'.9 P53
ISBN 0-905028-42-2
ISBN 0-905028-41-4 Pbk
Multilingual Matters Ltd
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Copyright © 1985 K. Hyltenstam, M. Pienemann, M.H. Long, P.M.
Lightbown, T. Pica, B. Hammarberg, H. Nicholas, M.C. Clyne, D.E.
Ingram, J.H. Hulstijn, H. Clahsen, S. Lapkin, L. Fried and W. Stölting.
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CONTENTS
Part I
1
Introduction
Kenneth Hyltenstam and Manfred Pienemann 3
2
Learnability and Syllabus Construction
Manfred Pienemann 23
3
A Role for Instruction in Second Language Acquisition: Task-
Based Language Training
Michael H. Long 77
4
Can Language Acquisition be Altered by Instruction?
Patsy M. Lightbown 101
5
L2 Learners' Variable Output and Language Teaching
Kenneth Hyltenstam 113
6
Linguistic Simplicity and Learnability: Implications for Language
Syllabus Design
Teresa Pica 137
7
Learnability and Learner Strategies in Second Language Syntax and
Phonology
153
Björn Hammarberg
8
Learner Variations and the Teachability Hypothesis
Howard Nicholas 177
9
Medium or Object Different Contexts of (School-Based) Second
Language Acquisition
Michael C. Clyne 197

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Part II
10
Assessing Proficiency: An Overview on Some Aspects of Testing
David E. Ingram 215
11
Testing Second Language Proficiency with Direct Procedures. A
Comment on Ingram
Jan H. Hulstijn 277
12
Profiling Second Language Development: A Procedure for
Assessing L2 Proficiency
Harald Clahsen 283
13
Pedagogical Implications of Direct Second Language Testing: A
Canadian Example
Sharon Lapkin 333
14
On the Validity of Second Language Tests
Lilian Fried 349
15
Second Language Proficiency: An Interactive Approach
Jan H. Hulstijn 373
16
Language Assessment as a Social Activity
Wilfried Stolting
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