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Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region
This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework. Readers will be pleasantly surprised to be able to access, within one publication, so much novel and overview information on SLA while maintaining its focus on PT, its theoretical developments including its 2005 (Pienemann et al.) and 2015 (Bettoni & Di Biase) extensions and how they relate to PT’s foundation work (Pienemann 1998), as well as its applications to language learning and teaching in Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Malay and English in countries of the Asia-Pacific region including Australia. This volume demonstrates the vitality and the dynamic nature of PT and its potential as a tool for understanding SLA both theory and practice.
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 9] 2023. vii, 309 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 6 January 2023
Published online on 6 January 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–7
- Chapter 1. Processability Theory, second language learning and teaching in the Asia-Pacific regionSatomi Kawaguchi, Bruno Di Biase and Yumiko Yamaguchi | pp. 1–24
- Part 1. Asian languages as second languages
- Chapter 2. Studies of Japanese as a second language and their contribution to Processability TheorySatomi Kawaguchi | pp. 27–62
- Chapter 3. The development of lexical mapping in Chinese L2: The mapping of multiple arguments, passive and causative structuresBo Liu, Bruno Di Biase and Satomi Kawaguchi | pp. 63–90
- Chapter 4. Extending PT to split ergative marking and differential object marking: Some hypotheses for L2 HindiKristof Baten and Aaricia Ponnet | pp. 91–114
- Chapter 5. Acquiring content questions in Japanese child second languageSatomi Kawaguchi and Junko Iwasaki | pp. 115–143
- Chapter 6. Japanese L2 corpora and SLA researchKumiko Sakoda and Satomi Kawaguchi | pp. 144–162
- Part 2. Bilingual first language acquisition and PT
- Chapter 7. The bilingual development of plural marking in a Malay-English childRabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh, Bruno Di Biase and Satomi Kawaguchi | pp. 165–191
- Chapter 8. Development of Japanese and English polar questions in bilingual first language acquisitionYuki Itani-Adams and Bruno Di Biase | pp. 192–227
- Part 3. English as Foreign Language (EFL) in Asia
- Chapter 9. Developmentally moderated focus on form in an Indonesian kindergarten EFL programmeIsriani Hardini, Bruno Di Biase, Satomi Kawaguchi and Carol Reid | pp. 231–257
- Chapter 10. The acquisition of polar questions in Chinese learners of English as a foreign language: A processability approachRan Li and Louise Jansen | pp. 258–279
- Chapter 11. Testing the validity of Processability Theory through a corpus-based analysis: The acquisition of plural marking in English speaking and writing by Japanese native speakersYumiko Yamaguchi and Hiroko Usami | pp. 280–300
- About the authors | pp. 301–303
- Index | pp. 305–309