Chapters
1. Introduction 6. SLA and Linguistics
2. Looking at Interlanguage 7. Universal Grammar
Data 8. Looking at Interlanguage
Second Language Acquisition 3. The Role of the Native Processes
Language: An Historical 9. Interlanguage in Context
Overview 10. Input, Interaction, and
An Introductory Course 4. Child Language Output
Acquisition: First and 11. Instructed Second
Second Language Learning
5. Recent Perspectives on 12. Nonlanguage Influences
the Role of Previously
Known Languages 13. The Lexicon
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Introduction
• The study of SLA
Chapter 1 • Definitions
• The nature of language
• The nature of nonnative speaker
Introduction
knowledge
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Introduction
Chapter 2
• The nature of language
• Sound systems
• Syntax
• Morphology Looking at Interlanguage Data
• The lexicon
• Pragmatics
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Looking at IL Data Looking at IL Data
• Data analysis • Data elicitation
• What data analysis doesn’t reveal • Standardized language tests
• Data collection • Tests from psychology
• Language elicitation measures
• Data elicitation
• Replication
• What is acquisition?
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The Role of the NL:
An Historical Overview
Chapter 3 • An historical perspective
• The contrastive analysis hypothesis
The Role of the Native Language: • Error analysis
An Historical Overview
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The Role of the NL:
An Historical Overview
• An historical perspective Chapter 4
• Psychological background
• Linguistic background
Child Language Acquisition:
First and Second
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Child Language Acquisition: Child Language Acquisition:
First and Second First and Second
• Child first language acquisition • Child first language acquisition
• Theories of learning • Babbling
• Child second language acquisition • Words
• Sounds and pronunciation
• Child second language morpheme
order studies • Syntax
• Morphology
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Recent Perspectives on the Role of
Previously Known Languages
Chapter 5 • Morpheme order studies
Recent Perspectives on the Role of • Revised perspectives on the role of the native
Previously Known Languages language
• Interlanguage transfer
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Recent Perspectives on the Role of
Previously Known Languages
• Revised perspectives on the role of the native
language Chapter 6
• Avoidance
• Differential learning rates
• Different paths SLA and Linguistics
• Overproduction
• Predictability/selectivity
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SLA and Linguistics SLA and Linguistics
• Language universals • Typological universals
• The NP accessibility hierarchy
• Typological universals • The acquisition of questions
• Voicing of obstruents
• Tense and aspect • Tense and aspect
• The aspect hypothesis
• Phonology • The discourse hypothesis
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Universal Grammar
Chapter 7
• Universal Grammar
• Transfer: The UG perspective
Universal Grammar
• Minimalist program
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Universal Grammar Universal Grammar
• Universal Grammar • Transfer: The UG perspective
• Initial state • Levels of representation
• UG principles • Clustering
• UG parameters • Learnability
• Falsification: UG and typological
universals
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Looking at Interlanguage Processes
• The competition model
Chapter 8 • The monitor model
• Critiques of the monitor model
• Alternative modes of knowledge
Looking at Interlanguage Processes
representation
• Connectionism
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Looking at Interlanguage Processes Looking at Interlanguage Processes
• The monitor model • Critiques of the monitor model
• The acquisition-learning hypothesis • The acquisition-learning hypothesis
• The natural order hypothesis • The natural order hypothesis
• The monitor hypothesis • The monitor hypothesis
• The input hypothesis • The input hypothesis
• The affective filter hypothesis • The affective filter hypothesis
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Interlanguage in Context
Chapter 9 • Variation
• Systematic variation
Interlanguage in Context
• Communicative strategies
• Interlanguage pragmatics
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Interlanguage in Context
• Systematic variation
• Linguistic context
• Social context relating to
Chapter 10
• The native language
• Social context relating to Input, Interaction,
• Interlocutor and Output
• Task type
• Conversational topic
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Input, Interaction, and Output Input, Interaction, and Output
Input Output
Comprehension – Hypothesis testing
Interaction – Feedback
– Automaticity
Output
– Meaning-based to grammatically-based
The role of input and interaction in processing
language learning
Limitations of input
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Input, Interaction, and Output
Therole of input and interaction in
language learning
– Attention
Chapter 11
– Contrast theory
– Metalinguistic awareness
Instructed Second
Language Learning
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Instructed Second Instructed Second
Language Learning Language Learning
• Classroom language • Focus on Form
• Input processing • Timing
• Teachability/learnability • Forms to focus on
• Focus on form
• Uniqueness of instruction
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Non-language Influences on SLA
Chapter 12
• Research traditions
• Linguistics
Non-language influences on SLA
• Psychology
• Psycholinguistics
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Non-language Influences on SLA Non-language Influences on SLA
• Social distance • Anxiety
• Age differences • Locus of control
• Aptitude • Personality factors
• Motivation • Extroversion and introversion
• Motivation over the long term and the short • Risk taking
term • Field independence
• Motivations as a function of time and success • Learning strategies
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Chapter 13 The Lexicon
• The significance of the lexicon
• Lexical knowledge
The Lexicon • Lexical information
• Lexical skills
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The Lexicon The Lexicon
• Lexical information • Lexical skills
– Word associations – Production
– Incidental vocabulary learning – Perception
– Incremental vocabulary learning – Word formation
– Memory metaphors – Word combinations, collocations,
and phraseology
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