Second Language Acquisition : Foreign Language Learning / edited by Bill VanPatten and James F. Lee. - Philadelphia, PA : Multilingual Matters, 1990. - 276 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Multilingual Matters .

Includes index.

Vol. 58.

Bibliography: p. 246-268.

Introduction 1. Second' and 'Foreign' in Second Language Acquisition/Foreign Language Learning: A Sociolinguistic Perspective / Margie Berns PART I: SOME PERSPECTIVES ON SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION/FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING A: Views from FL 2. Theory and Research in Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning: On Producers and Consumers / 3. What is Foreign Language Learning Research? / Bill Van Patten Claire Kramsch B: Views from L2
4. Second and Foreign Language Learning: Same, Different or None of the Above? / 5. Models, Processes, Principles and Strategies: Second Language Acquisition Inside and Outside the Classroom / Susan M. Gass
Roger W. Andersen PART II: FRAMEWORKS AND APPROACHES TO RESEARCH ISSUES Using L2 and FL Data in Interlanguage Research 6. Linguistic Theory and the Acquisition of German Negation / 7. Word-Order Transfer, Metalinguistic Awareness and Constraints on Foreign Language Learning / 8. The Acquisition of Clitic Pronouns in Spanish: Two Case Studies / 9. Coexisting Discourse Worlds: The Development of Pragmatic Competence Inside and Outside the Classroom / 10. Foreign Language Learning: A Social Interaction Perspective / 11. On Topic Choice in Oral Proficiency Assessment / Lynn Eubank Terrence Odlin Bill Van Patten Mary E. Wildner-Bassett Frank B. Brooks Susan Cameron Bacon PART III: FROM RESEARCH AND THEORY TO PRACTICE
12. In Second Language Acquisition Foreign Language Learning, Nothing is More Practical than a Good Theory / 13. Prefabricated Speech for Language Learning / 14. A Role for Communicative Competence and the Acquisition-Learning Distinction in Translator Training / 15. Can Foreign Language Learning Be Like Second Language Acquisition? The Curious Case of Immersion / 16. Conservation of Language Resources / 17. Contexts, Processes and Products in Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning / Sandra J. Savignon James R. Nattinger Don Kiraly Linda Schinke-Llano Russell N. Campbell and Kathryn J. Lindholm Bill VanPatten and James F. Lee Conclusion

"This book is a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, and teachers in training. Through a selected integration of chapters from leading researchers in both areas, the volume explores the contexts, processes, and products that comprise the disciplines known as second language acquisition and foreign language learning. The aims of the collection are to offer various perspectives on how second language learning. The aims of the collection are to offer various perspectives on how second language acquisition and foreign language learning come together as fields of inquiry and to suggest how foreign language teaching benefits from research in language learning." (Back Cover)

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Second language acquisition.
Language and languages--Study and teaching.

P118.2 / .S43 1990