Future Research Directions for Applied Linguistics / / Simone E. Pfenninger, Judit Navracsics

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910162812503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-78309-714-0; 1-78309-713-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 pages)
• Collana: Second Language Acquisition
• Classificazione: ES 600
• Disciplina: 418
• Soggetti: Applied linguistics - Research - Methodology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Future of the Bilingual Advantage -- 3 The Multilingual Brain: Implications for the Future -- 4 Phonological and Semantic Awareness of Bilinguals and Second Language Learners: Potential Implications for Second Language Instruction -- 5 Perception of Checked Vowels by Early and Late Dutch/English Bilinguals – Towards a New Measure of Language Dominance -- 6 Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Age-related Research -- 7 Language Policy in Ukraine: The Burdens of the Past and the Possibilities of the Future -- 8 The Reanalysis of -end as Marker for Gender-sensitive Language Use and What This Implies for the Future Expression of Gender Equality -- 9 Analytic Framework of the Critical Classroom: Language and Beyond -- 10 Strategies in Multilingual Learning: Opening New Research Avenues -- 11 Academic Writing Development: A Complex, Dynamic Process -- 12 Lessons Learned from the Integration of Findings from Identical and Semi-Cognate Visual and Auditory Processing in Bilingual Cognate Studies: Implications for Future Studies -- 13 The Impact of Attitudes on Language Retention of Russian as a Foreign Language in Hungary: Some Lessons to be Learnt from Attrition Studies -- 14 Concluding Thoughts: A Road Map for Future Research in Applied Linguistics -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume provides an overview of current thinking and directions for further research in applied linguistics by bringing together in a single volume a range of perspectives regarding original research agendas and innovative methodological approaches. It focuses not only on the challenges that applied linguistics researchers have been facing in recent years but also on producing workable and productive research designs and on identifying ways of how alternatives to conventional research methodologies can be used. Discussions featured in the volume include the so-called ‘Bilingual Advantage’ in psycho- and neurolinguistics; the optimal starting age debate in foreign language learning; the growing interest among applied linguists in more nuanced and more complex (statistical) data analysis and the priority given to more descriptive and social approaches to linguistics rather than to theorising. The collection will be a useful reference and stimulus for students, researchers and professionals working in the areas of applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition and second language education.