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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790091603321

Titolo

Alternative approaches to second language acquisition / / edited by Dwight Atkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-82579-7

1-283-10451-2

9786613104519

1-136-82580-0

0-203-83093-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

AtkinsonDwight

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Second language acquisition - Study and teaching

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The sociocultural approach to second language acquisition : sociocultural theory, second language acquisition, and artificial l2 development / James P. Lantolf -- A Complexity Theory Approach to Second Language Development/ Acquisition / Diane Larsen-Freeman -- An Identity Approach to Second Language Acquisition / Bonny Norton & Carolyn McKinney -- Language Socialization Approaches to Second Language Acquisition : Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Development in Additional Languages / Patricia A. Duff & Steven Talmy - A Conversation-analytic Approach to Second Language Acquisition / Gabriele Kasper & Johannes Wagner -- A Sociocognitive Approach to Second Language Acquisition : How Mind, Body, and World Work Together in Learning Additional Languages / Dwight Atkinson -- Discussion-SLA after the Social Turn : Where Cognitivism and its Alternatives Stand / Lourdes Ortega.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents six alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition - 'alternative' in the sense that they contrast with and/or complement the cognitivism pervading the field. All six approaches - sociocultural, complexity theory, conversation-analytic,



identity, language socialization, and sociocognitive - are described according to the same set of six headings, allowing for direct comparison across approaches.Each chapter is authored by leading advocates for the approach described: James Lantolf for the sociocultural approach; Diane Larsen-Freeman for the comple