04147nam 22006731 450 991077848210332120200514202323.01-4742-1223-91-282-29703-197866122970381-4411-7593-810.5040/9781474212236(CKB)1000000000794337(EBL)454774(OCoLC)646829217(SSID)ssj0001146202(PQKBManifestationID)12474688(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001146202(PQKBWorkID)11124217(PQKB)11519565(MiAaPQ)EBC454774(Au-PeEL)EBL454774(CaPaEBR)ebr10329969(CaONFJC)MIL229703(OCoLC)893334697(UkLoBP)bpp09258245(EXLCZ)99100000000079433720150227d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIssues in second language proficiency /edited by Alessandro G. BenatiLondon ;New York :Continuum,2009.1 online resource (270 p.)Includes index.1-4411-8232-2 0-8264-3515-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Attaining Second Language Proficiency; Part 1: Theory and the Dimensions of Second Language Proficiency; 2. What Is 'Priming', And What Might Priming Techniques Be Able to Tell Us About L2 Learning and Proficiency?; 3. Cross-linguistic Influence In L2 Verb Frames: The Effects of Word Familiarity and Language Proficiency; 4. The Role of Working Memory in the Development of L2 Grammatical Proficiency; Part 2: Factors Contributing to the Attainment of L2 Proficiency5. Statistical Learning And Innate Knowledge in the Development of Second Language Proficiency: Evidence From the Acquisition of Gender Concord6. Metalinguistic Knowledge: A Stepping Stone Towards L2 Proficiency?; 7. The Development of Vocabulary Proficiency in Relation to Learning Style; 8. Second Language Reading Proficiency and Word Recognition: The Concept of Saliency and Its Application Across Different Scripts; 9. L2 Proficiency: Measuring the Intelligibility of Words and Extended Speech; 10. English With a Native-like Accent: An Empirical Study on ProficiencyPart 3: Attaining L2 Proficiency in the Classroom11. Formal Intervention and The Development of Proficiency: The Role of Explicit Information; 12. Secondary and Cumulative Effects in Attaining L2 Proficiency in the Classroom: The Acquisition of French; 13. Models of Speaking and The Assessment of Second Language Proficiency; 14. Researching Task Difficulty: Towards Understanding L2 Proficiency; 15. On Transfer, Proficiency and Cross-individual/Aggregate Sla Differences: Examining Adjectival Semantics In L2 Spanish; IndexBenati provides clarity about the characteristics and notion of language proficiency in the field of second language acquisition. He looks at four areas of research paradigmatically related to the role of proficiency: theorizing and measuring second language proficiency; the dimensions of L2 proficiency; factors contributing to the attainment of L2 proficiency; and attaining L2 proficiency in the classroom. It also contains a variety of research accounts about the specific factors which have an effect on proficiency together with a theorised measurement of proficiency in second language researSecond language acquisitionCommunicative competenceLanguage and languagesStudy and teachingSecond language acquisition.Communicative competence.Language and languagesStudy and teaching.418.0071Benati Alessandro G.UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910778482103321Issues in second language proficiency3859755UNINA