David Singleton
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Singleton is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2542-3835 | E‑ISSN 2542‑3843
Language, Interaction and Acquisition
Langage, Interaction et Acquisition
Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Marion Blondel, Helen Engemann, Marianne Gullberg, Henriëtte Hendriks, Fabian Santiago, Anita Thomas and Georges Daniel Véronique
ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873
Yearbook
Titles
Multilingualism
Larissa Aronin and David Singleton
This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 30] 2012. ix, 230 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 10 (2010)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Martin Howard, Muiris Ó Laoire and David Singleton
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 10] 2010. vi, 281 pp.
2025 Chapter 5. Language “juggling” in children: Issues of age and methodology in multilingualism research Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research, Butler, Yuko Goto and Annamaria Pinter (eds.), pp. 78–95 | Chapter
In this chapter we explore the ramifications of the fact that young L2 beginners have less experience of language at large than older L2 beginners. One inference from this might be that older learners are linguistically advantaged. Much L2 literature, however, claims that pre-adolescents are… read more
2021 Language aptitude, language interaction and age of language learning: One researcher’s recent perspective Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12:2, pp. 284–305 | Article
This article reviews David Singleton’s books and articles published during the period 2014–2020. The first section concerns a popular book which he co-authored with Vivian Cook; the second gives an account of articles covering questions about the concept of language aptitude; the third deals… read more
2019 Making the most of an early start to L2 instruction Language Teaching for Young Learners 1:2, pp. 111–138 | To be specified
Research over more than forty years has shown consistently that earlier L2 starters do not in the long term maintain the linguistic advantage of an early start over older starters. What, then, in the light of the widespread setting aside of the evidence regarding the apparent uselessness of an… read more
2018 L2 acquisition in childhood, adulthood and old age: Misreported and under-researched dimensions of the age factor Journal of Second Language Studies 1:2, pp. 254–276 | Article
This article deals with some misunderstandings about the age factor in second language acquisition which result from a reliance on an incomplete interpretation of relevant research findings. It begins with an exploration of the work of Penfield and Lenneberg and goes on to weigh recent evidence… read more
2012 Multilingual lexical operations: Keeping it all together ... and apart Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood, Cabrelli, Jennifer, Suzanne Flynn and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 95–114 | Article
This paper begins by providing a brief historical overview of perspectives on the notion of cross-linguistic influence. It goes on to discuss the application of this notion to the lexical domain, and then offers some thoughts on what cross-lexical interaction does and does not imply with regard to… read more
2009 5. The role of prior knowledge in L3 learning and use: Further evidence of psychotypological dimensions The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition, Aronin, Larissa and Britta Hufeisen (eds.), pp. 79–102 | Chapter
This chapter reports on two studies. The first study examines the learning of French as an L3 by Anglophone students of French whose L2 was Irish and by balanced bilinguals. The second study investigates German as L3 with reference to two groups of English-speaking participants who have Irish as a… read more
2007 Foreign accent in advanced learners: Two successful profiles EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 7 (2007), Roberts, Leah, Ayşe Gürel, Sibel Tatar and Leyla Martı (eds.), pp. 171–190 | Article
Research has generally found age of learning (AOL) (i.e., age of initial significant L2 exposure) to predict degree of foreign accent (FA), while length of residence (LOR) has sometimes been seen as simply a corollary of AOL. The subjects in the present study were twelve late L2 learners of English… read more
2001 A Message from EUROSLA President EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Anna Nizegorodcew (eds.), pp. 1–2 | Miscellaneous