The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition presents an integrated discussion of key, and sometimes controversial, issues in second language acquisition research.
Discusses the biological and cognitive underpinnings of SLA, mechanisms, processes, and constraints on SLA, the level of ultimate attainment, research methods, and the status of SLA as a cognitive science.
Includes contributions from twenty-seven of the world's leading scholars.
Provides an invaluable resource for all students and scholars of human cognition, including those in linguistics, psychology, applied linguistics, ESL, foreign languages, and cognitive science.
List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgments x
I Overview 1
1 The Scope of Inquiry and Goals of SLA 3
Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long
II Capacity and Representation 17
2 On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language 19
Lydia White
3 The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar 43
William O'Grady
4 Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure 63
Nick C. Ellis
5 Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals: The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations 104
Judith F. Kroll and Gretchen Sunderman
6 Near-Nativeness 130
Antonella Sorace
III Environments for Sla 153
7 Language Socialization in SLA 155
Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and Sarah Nielsen
8 Social Context 178
Jeff Siegel
9 Input and Interaction 224
Susan M. Gass
10 Instructed SLA: Constraints, Compensation, and Enhancement 256
Catherine J. Doughty
IV Processes in Sla 311
11 Implicit and Explicit Learning 313
Robert DeKeyser
12 Incidental and Intentional Learning 349
Jan H. Hulstijn
13 Automaticity and Second Languages 382
Norman Segalowitz
14 Variation 409
Suzanne Romaine
15 Cross-Linguistic Influence 436
Terence Odlin
16 Stabilization and Fossilization in Interlanguage Development 487
Michael H. Long
V Biological and Psychological Constraints 537
17 Maturational Constraints in SLA 539
Kenneth Hyltenstam and Niclas Abrahamsson
18 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning 589
Zoltán Dörnyei and Peter Skehan
19 Attention and Memory during SLA 631
Peter Robinson
20 Language Processing Capacity 679
Manfred Pienemann
VI Research Methods 715
21 Defining and Measuring SLA 717
John Norris and Lourdes Ortega
22 Data Collection in SLA Research 762
Craig Chaudron
VII The State of Sla 829
23 SLA Theory: Construction and Assessment 831
Kevin R. Gregg
24 SLA and Cognitive Science 866
Michael H. Long and Catherine J. Doughty
Index 871
