Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner Language Learning & Language Teaching (LL<) The LL< monograph series publishes monographs, edited volumes and text books on applied and methodological issues in the field of language pedagogy. The focus of the series is on subjects such as classroom discourse and interaction; language diversity in educational settings; bilingual education; language testing and language assessment; teaching methods and teaching performance; learning trajectories in second language acquisition; and written language learning in educational settings. Editors Jan H. Hulstijn Nina Spada Department of Second Language Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Acquisition, University of Amsterdam University of Toronto Volume 23 Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner. Child's play? Edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner Child's play? Edited by Jenefer Philp University of Auckland Rhonda Oliver Edith Cowan University, Bunbury Alison Mackey Georgetown University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Second language acquisition and the younger learner : child’s play? / edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver, and Alison Mackey. p. cm. (Language Learning & Language Teaching, issn 1569-9471 ; v. 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Second language acquisition. 2. Language and languages--Study and teaching. I. Philp, Jenefer. II. Oliver, Rhonda. III. Mackey, Alison. IV. Title: 2nd language acquisition and the younger learner. P118.2.S4283 2008 401’.93--dc22 2008030302 isbn 978 90 272 1984 8 (Hb; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 1985 5 (Pb; alk. paper) © 2008 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa TSL[v.20020404] Prn:9/09/2008;11:39 F:LLLT23CO.tex / p.1(v) Table of contents Listofcontributors vii Introduction Child’splay?Secondlanguageacquisitionandtheyoungerlearnerincontext 3 JeneferPhilp,AlisonMackey,andRhondaOliver Section1. CharacteristicsofchildSLA Definingchildsecondlanguageacquisition,definingrolesforL2instruction 27 HowardNicholasandPatsyM.Lightbown Perspectivesonsecondlanguageacquisitionatdifferentages 53 ChristineDimroth Section2. Instructedlanguagelearningintheearlyyearsofeducation Whenthegateopens:Theinteractionbetweensocialandlinguisticgoals inchildsecondlanguagedevelopment 83 JeneferPhilpandSusanDuchesne Developingconversationalskillsinasecondlanguage:Languagelearning affordancesinamultipartyclassroomsetting 105 AstaCekaite Theimpactofteacherinput,guidanceandfeedbackonESLchildren’s task-basedinteractions 131 RhondaOliver,JeneferPhilpandAlisonMackey Negotiationofmeaningintheclassroom:Doesitenhance readingcomprehension? 149 KrisVandenBranden Section3. Instructedlanguagelearninginthelateryearsofeducation Incidentalfocusonformandlearningoutcomeswithyoungforeign languageclassroomlearners 173 EvaAlcónSolerandMaríadelPilarGarcíaMayo TSL[v.20020404] Prn:9/09/2008;11:39 F:LLLT23CO.tex / p.2(vi) SecondLanguageAcquisitionandtheYoungerLearner Speedingupacquisitionofhisandher:ExplicitL1/L2contrastshelp 193 JoannaWhite Section4. ChildSLAathomeandinthecommunity AcquiringJapaneseasasecondlanguage(JSL)inanaturalisticcontext: Alongitudinalstudyofayoungchildfrom aProcessabilityTheory(PT)perspective 231 JunkoIwasaki Learningasecondlanguageinthefamily 255 RosamondMitchellandChongNimLee Home-schoolconnectionsforinternationaladoptees:Repetitionin parent-childinteraction 279 LynWrightFogle LanguagetransferinchildSLA:Alongitudinalcasestudy ofasequentialbilingual 303 Eun-YoungKwonandZhaoHongHan Index 333 JB[v.20020404] Prn:19/08/2008;14:01 F:LLLT23AD.tex / p.1(48-269) List of contributors EvaAlcónSoler ZhaoHongHan Departmentd’EstudisAnglesos TeachersCollege CampusdeRiuSec UniversityofColumbia UniversitatJame1 NewYork CastellondelaPlana USA Spain [email protected] [email protected] JunkoIwasaki International,Cultural AstaCekaite andCommunityStudies TheTemaInstitute EdithCowanUniversity LinköpingUniversity MountLawleyCampus 58183Linköping 2BradfordStreet Sweden MountLawley [email protected] WesternAustralia6050 [email protected] ChristineDimroth Max-Planck-InstituteforPsycholinguistics EunYoungKwon P.O.Box310 TeachersCollege 6500AHNijmegen UniversityofColumbia TheNetherlands NewYork [email protected] USA [email protected] SusanDuchesne ChongNimLee UniversityofWollongong CentreforAppliedLanguageResearch BegaEducationCentre UniversityofSouthampton POBox1020 Highfield BegaNSW2550 Southampton Australia SO171BJ [email protected] UnitedKingdom [email protected] LynFogle DepartmentofLinguistics PatsyM.Lightbown GeorgetownUniversity DepartmentofEducation Box571051 ConcordiaUniversity 37thandOStreets,NW 1455deMaisonneuveBlvd.W. Washington,D.C.20057-1051 Montreal,QCH3G1M8 USA Canada [email protected] [email protected] JB[v.20020404] Prn:19/08/2008;14:01 F:LLLT23AD.tex / p.2(269-447) Listofcontributors AlisonMackey RhondaOliver DepartmentofLinguistics FacultyofRegionalProfessionalStudies GeorgetownUniversity EdithCowanUniversity Box571051 SouthWestCampus 37thandOStreets,NW RobertsonDrive Washington,D.C.20057-1051 Bunbury USA WesternAustralia6230 [email protected] [email protected] MaríadelPilarGarcíaMayo JeneferPhilp DepartamentodeFilologíaInglesa DepartmentofAppliedLanguageStudies yAlemanaydeTraducción andLinguistics eInterpretación TheUniversityofAuckland UniversidaddelPaísVasco PrivateBag92019 PaseodelaUniversidad5 Auckland1020 01006Vitoria NewZealand Spain [email protected] [email protected] KrisVandenBranden RosamondMitchell CentreforLanguageandEducation CentreforAppliedLanguageResearch KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven UniversityofSouthampton Blijde-Inkomststraat7 Highfield B-3000Leuven Southampton Belgium SO171BJ [email protected] UnitedKingdom [email protected] JoannaWhite HowardNicholas DepartmentofEducation SchoolofEducationalStudies ConcordiaUniversity LaTrobeUniversity 1455deMaisonneuveBlvd.W. Victoria3086 Montreal,QCH3G1M8 Australia Canada [email protected] [email protected] JB[v.20020404] Prn:3/07/2008;13:26 F:LLLT23IN.tex / p.1(47-80) Introduction