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Widening Contexts for Processability Theory
Theories and issues
This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories with other ways of working. Parallel to this it offers readers who work in other traditions ways of connecting with a research tradition that makes specific testable claims about second language acquisition processes. These dual perspectives mean that both beginning and established SLA researchers as well as those seeking to connect their work with views of language learning will find something of interest. Studies of multiple languages and multiple aspects of language are included. Chapters cover areas as diverse as literacy, language comprehension, language attrition and language testing.
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 7] 2019. ix, 404 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 15 October 2019
Published online on 15 October 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
- Chapter 1. Contextualising issues in Processability TheoryAnke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos | pp. 1–8
- Section 1. Language production and comprehension processes
- Chapter 2. Towards an integrated model of grammatical encoding and decoding in SLAAnke Lenzing | pp. 13–48
- Chapter 3. Productive and receptive processes in PTPatti Spinner and Sehoon Jung | pp. 49–72
- Chapter 4. Is morpho-syntactic decoding governed by Processability Theory?Aafke Buyl | pp. 73–102
- Section 2. Language acquisition features across typological boundaries
- References
- Chapter 5. Case within the phrasal procedure stage: Sequences of acquisition in Russian L2Daniele Artoni | pp. 105–130
- Chapter 6. Developing morpho-syntax in non-configurational languages: A comparison between Russian L2 and Italian L2Marco Magnani | pp. 131–154
- Section 3. Language use and developmental trajectories
- References
- Chapter 7. Using the Multiplicity framework to reposition and reframe the Hypothesis SpaceHoward Nicholas and Donna Starks | pp. 157–184
- Chapter 8. Processability Theory as a tool in the study of a heritage speaker of NorwegianArnstein Hjelde, Bjørn Harald Kvifte, Linda Evenstad Emilsen and Ragnar Arntzen | pp. 185–206
- Chapter 9. Discourse-pragmatic conditions for Object topicalisation structures in early L2 ChineseYanyin Zhang | pp. 207–230
- Chapter 10. Modelling relative clauses in Processability Theory and Lexical-Functional GrammarEmilia Nottbeck | pp. 231–254
- Chapter 11. Early development and relative clause constructions in English as a second language: A longitudinal studySatomi Kawaguchi and Yumiko Yamaguchi | pp. 255–282
- Section 4. Language learning and teaching issues in relation to classroom and assessment contexts
- Chapter 12. Exploiting the potential of tasks for targeted language learning in the EFL classroomJana Roos | pp. 285–300
- Chapter 13. Teaching the German case system: A comparison of two approaches to the study of learner readinessKristof Baten | pp. 301–326
- Chapter 14. Development of English question formation in the EFL context of China: Recasts or prompts?Huifang (Lydia) Li and Noriko Iwashita | pp. 327–348
- Chapter 15. Can print literacy impact upon learning to speak Standard Australian English?Carly Steele and Rhonda Oliver | pp. 349–370
- Chapter 16. The role of grammatical development in oral assessmentMaria Eklund Heinonen | pp. 371–390
- Chapter 17. How does PT’s view of acquisition relate to the challenge of widening perspectives on SLA?Howard Nicholas, Anke Lenzing and Jana Roos | pp. 391–398
- Terms index
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