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Profiling Learner Language as a Dynamic System SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Series Editors: Professor David Singleton, University of Pannonia, Hungary and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and Associate Professor Simone E. Pfenninger, University of Salzburg, Austria This series brings together titles dealing with a variety of aspects of language acquisition and processing in situations where a language or languages other than the native language is involved. Second language is thus interpreted in its broadest possible sense. The volumes included in the series all offer in their different ways, on the one hand, exposition and discussion of empirical findings and, on the other, some degree of theoretical reflection. In this latter connection, no particular theoretical stance is privileged in the series; nor is any relevant perspective – sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, etc. – deemed out of place. The intended readership of the series includes final-year undergraduates working on second language acquisition projects, postgraduate students involved in second language acquisition research, and researchers, teachers and policymakers in general whose interests include a second language acquisition component. All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed. Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.multilingual-matters.com, or by writing to Multilingual Matters, St Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol BS1 2AW, UK. SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: 134 Profiling Learner Language as a Dynamic System Edited by ZhaoHong Han MULTILINGUAL MATTERS Bristol • Blue Ridge Summit DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/HAN2791 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Names: Han, Zhaohong - editor. Title: Profiling Learner Language as a Dynamic System/Edited by ZhaoHong Han. Description: Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters, [2019] | Series: Second Language Acquisition: 134 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019003615 (print) | LCCN 2019015410 (ebook) | ISBN 9781788922807 (pdf) | ISBN 9781788922814 (epub) | ISBN 9781788922821 (Kindle) | ISBN 9781788922791 (hbk : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Second language acquisition--Study and teaching. | Language and languages--Study and teaching. | System theory. Classification: LCC P118.2 (ebook) | LCC P118.2 .P756 2019 (print) | DDC 418.0071--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019003615 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-279-1 (hbk) Multilingual Matters UK: St Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol BS1 2AW, UK. USA: NBN, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, USA. 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Contents Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix 1 Profiling Learner Language from a Complex Dynamic System Perspective: An Introduction 1 ZhaoHong Han and Jing Liu 2 A Dynamic View on Morphosyntactic Accuracy and Complexity in Dyadic Interaction 17 Yuan-Yuan Meng 3 A Dynamic View on Prepositions, Modal Auxiliaries and Metaphorical Functions in Dyadic Interaction 48 Natalia Sáez 4 A Dynamic View on Advice Giving in Dyadic Interaction 83 Heidi Liu Banerjee 5 A Dynamic View on Relational Propositions in Dyadic Interaction 104 Vanessa Sheu 6 A Dynamic View on Topic Management in Dyadic Interaction 133 Farah Akbar 7 Researching CDST: Promises and Pitfalls 156 ZhaoHong Han Index 167 v Acknowledgments This volume was largely borne out of a graduate course – A&HL 5008 Interlanguage Analysis – which I taught at Teachers College, Columbia University. Authors of the main chapters were among the students attend- ing the class. The work showcased in these chapters was first presented at a colloquium of the 2015 annual conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics and subsequently at a colloquium of the 2016 Second Language Research Forum. Authors benefited greatly from the feedback received at these venues. This volume would not have materialized without the generous assistance of a number of reviewers, among them Monika Ekiert, Hoa Nguyen, Eun Young Kang, Sarah Sok, Kaylee Fernandez, Moira Hamilton and the anonymous reviewers assigned by the publisher. The support from the publisher throughout – from the inception of the project through to production – has been instrumental. Last but not least, the four participants in the transpacific intercultural communication project deserve immense recognition. Without the two longitudinal datasets they contributed, this volume would not have been at all possible. vii Contributors Farah Akbar is pursuing her EdD in applied linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in second language acquisition (SLA). Her research interests include interactional feedback, computer-mediated communication and second language teacher education. Heidi Liu Banerjee recently completed her EdD study in applied linguis- tics at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in second lan- guage assessment. She has published on self-regulated learning, second language pragmatics and second language assessment. ZhaoHong Han is professor of language and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches graduate courses in TESOL, applied linguistics and foreign language instruction and where she also directs the Center for International Foreign Language Teacher Education. Her research interests straddle basic and applied second lan- guage acquisition (SLA). Jing Liu, PhD (University of Washington, 2001), is a professor at the Ocean University of China. Her doctoral dissertation focused on com- parative discourse analysis of Chinese and English native speakers’ use of discourse markers and hypotactic structure use in academic lectures. Her research interests include discourse analysis, ethnography of communica- tion and intercultural communication. Yuan-Yuan Meng is a senior lecturer in Chinese at Columbia University. She holds an EdM degree in applied linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include formulaic language, second language reading, writing and vocabulary development, and usage-based approaches to language learning. Natalia Sáez is a language instructor and researcher focusing on second language acquisition of linguistic and conceptual metaphors. She holds an MA in cognitive science from Universidad de Chile and an MA in applied linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is an EdD candidate in second language acquisition. ix x Contributors Vanessa Sheu is a lecturer in the ESL Program at the University of Iowa. She received a master’s degree in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her interests include second language vocabulary acquisition and discourse strategies in English for academic purposes.
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