Second Language Learning Theories Rosamond Mitchell

Second Language Learning Theories by Rosamond Mitchell

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Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition of Second Language Learning Theories a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition (SLA) from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the very latest developments SLA research.

Second Language Learning Theories: Fourth Edition by Rosamond Mitchell

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition (SLA) from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the very latest developments SLA research in recent years.

The book covers all the main theoretical perspectives currently active in SLA and sets each chapter within a broader framework. Each chapter examines the claims and scope of each theory and how each views language, the learner and the acquisition process, supplemented by summaries of key studies and data examples from a variety of languages. Chapters end with an evaluative summary of the theories discussed. Key features to this fourth edition include updated accounts of developments in cognitive approaches to second language (L2) learning, the implications of advances in generative linguistics and the "social turn" in L2 research, with re-worked chapters on functional, sociocultural and sociolinguistic perspectives, and an entirely new chapter on theory integration, in addition to updated examples using new studies.

Second Language Learning Theories continues to be an essential resource for graduate students in second language acquisition.

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Second language learning: key concepts and issues
2. Introduction
4. What makes for a good theory?
6. Views on the nature of language
8. The language learning process
10. Views of the language learner
12. Links with social practice
14. Conclusion
16. References
The recent history of second language learning research
2. Introduction
4. The 1950s and 1960s
6. The 1970s
8. The 1980s: a turning point
10. Continuities and new themes
12. Second language learning timeline
14. References
Linguistics and language learning: the Universal Grammar approach
2. Introduction
4. Why a Universal Grammar?
6. What does Universal Grammar consist of?
8. Universal Grammar and L1 acquisition
10. Universal Grammar and L2 acquisition
12. Evaluation of Universal Grammar-based approaches to L2 acquisition
14. References
Cognitive approaches to second language learning (1): general learning mechanisms
2. Introduction
4. Input-based emergentist perspectives
6. Processing-based perspectives
8. Evaluation of general cognitive approaches
10. References
Cognitive approaches to second language learning (2): Memory systems, explicit knowledge, and skill learning
2. Introduction
4. Memory systems and their role in L2 learning
6. Explicit knowledge, information processing and skill acquisition
8. Awareness and attention in L2 acquisition
10. Working memory and L2 learning
12. Evaluation of cognitive approaches (2): memory systems, explicit knowledge, and skill learning
14. References
Interaction in second language learning
2. Introduction
4. The revised Interaction Hypothesis (Long, 1996): an appeal to cognitive theory
6. Negotiation of meaning and the learning of target L2 structures and vocabulary
8. The role of feedback during oral interaction
10. The problem of "noticing"
12. L2 development in computer-mediated interaction
14. Characteristics of learners and of tasks
16. Evaluation
18. References
Meaning-based perspectives on second language learning
2. Introduction
4. Early functionalist studies of second language learning
6. Functionalism beyond the case study: the "learner varieties" approach
8. "Time talk": developing the means to talk about time
10. The Aspect Hypothesis
12. Cognitive linguistics and "thinking for speaking"
14. Second language pragmatics
16. Evaluation
18. References
Sociocultural perspectives on second language learning
2. Introduction
4. Sociocultural theory
6. Applications of sociocultural theory to second language learning
8. Evaluation
10. References
Sociolinguistic perspectives
2. Introduction
4. Sociolinguistically driven variability in second language use
6. Second language socialization
8. Conversation analysis and second language learning
10. Communities of practice and situated learning
12. The language learner as social being: L2 identity, agency and investment
14. Evaluation: the scope and achievement of sociolinguistic inquiry
16. References
Integrating theoretical perspectives on second language learning
10.1. Introduction

10.2. The MOGUL framework

10.3. Dynamic Systems Theory (DST)

10.4. Conclusion

10.5. References
Conclusion
2. One theory or many?
4. Main achievements of second language learning research
6. Future directions
8. Second language research and language education

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