The Continuum Companion to Second Language Acquisition

370 Pages·2010·1.78 MB·English

by  Ernesto Macaro

To my son Jamie
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Continuum Companion
to Second Language
Acquisition
Edited by
Ernesto Macaro
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Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xii
Part 1 The Second Language Acquisition Landscape
1  Second Language Acquisition: The Landscape, the
 Scholarship and the Reader 3
Ernesto Macaro
2  A Compendium of Key Concepts in Second
 Language Acquisition 29
Ernesto Macaro, Robert Vanderplank and Victoria A. Murphy
3 Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition 107
Andrew D. Cohen and Ernesto Macaro
Part 2 Issues and Relationships in Second Language Acquisition
4  The Relationship between First and Second Language
 Acquisition Revisited 137
Vivian Cook
5  The Relationship between Age of Learning and Type of
 Linguistic Exposure in Children Learning a Second Language 158
Victoria A. Murphy
6  The Relationship between L2 Vocabulary Knowledge and
 L2 Vocabulary Use 179
Paul Meara
7 The Relationship between L2 Input and L2 Output 194
Susan Gass
Contents
 8  The Relationship between Pedagogical Focus and Interaction
 in L2 Lessons 220
Paul Seedhouse
 9  The Relationship between Language Aptitude and
Language Learning Motivation: Individual Diff erences
from a Dynamic Systems Perspective 247
Zoltán Dörnyei
10  The Relationship between Strategic Behaviour and
 Language Learning Success 268
Ernesto Macaro
Conclusions 300
Ernesto Macaro
References 306
Index 343
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Notes on Contributors
Paul Seedhouse is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics in the
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle
U niversity, UK. His monograph The Interactional Architecture of the Language
Classroom was published by Blackwell in 2004 and won the Modern Languages
Association of America Mildenberger Prize. He also co-edited the collections
Applying Conversation Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), Language Learning
and Teaching as Social Interaction, (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and Conversation
Analysis and Language for Specifi c Purposes (Peter Lang 2007). He currently has a
second grant from the IELTS consortium to look at topic development in the
IELTS speaking test.
Susan M. Gass is University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and
Languages, Director of the English Language Center, Director of the Second
Language Studies Ph.D. programme, Co-Director of the Center for Language
Education and Research, Co-Director of the Center for the Support for Language
Teaching, all at Michigan State University. She received her undergraduate
degree from University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. from U.C.L.A. and
her Ph.D. from Indiana University. She has published widely in the fi eld of
s econd language acquisition and is the author of numerous articles and books.
She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Distinguished Faculty
Award at Michigan State University, the Ralph Smuckler Award for Interna-
tional Studies at Michigan State University, Paul Pimsleur Award for Outstand-
ing Research from ACTFL (American Council for the Teaching of Foreign
Languages) and the Michigan Association of Governing Boards Award. She has
served as the president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics
and and of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). She is
also on numerous editorial boards and is the current Associate Editor of Studies
in Second Language Acquisition.
Andrew D. Cohen (Professor in Second Language Studies, University of
Minnesota) served as a Peace Corps Volunteer on the High Plains of Bolivia, as