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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460875903321

Titolo

Usage-based perspectives on second language learning / / edited by Teresa Cadierno ; Soren Wind Eskildsen ; contributors, Anne-Marie Barraja-Rohan [and eighteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039325-5

3-11-037852-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Collana

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics, , 1861-4078 ; ; Volume 30

Disciplina

401.93

Soggetti

Second language acquisition - Psychological aspects

Language and languages - Study and teaching - Psychological aspects

Language and languages - Usage

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Advancing usage-based approaches to L2 studies -- Multidimensional SLA -- Cognitive and Social Aspects of Learning from Usage -- Designing for Language Learning in the Wild: Creating social infrastructures for second language learning -- Structural priming and the acquisition of novel form-meaning mappings -- Input and language competence in early-start foreign language classrooms -- Online informal learning of English: frequency effects in the uptake of chunks of language from participation in web-based activities -- Long-term development in an instructed adult L2 learner: Usage-based and complexity theory applied -- On the development of motion constructions in four learners of L2 English -- The development of L2 interactional competence: evidence from turn-taking organization, sequence organization, repair organization and preference organization -- “I told you”: Storytelling development of a Japanese learning English as a Second Language -- A Dynamic Usage-based



Approach to Second Language Teaching -- L1, quantity of exposure to L2, and reading disability as factors in L2 literacy skills -- Usage-based SLA: A Research Habitus Whose Time Has Come -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning – perspectives that we conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives.