Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Rosa Alonso Alonso

Publication date:

11 January 2016

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783094820

This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters focusing on vocabulary, morphosyntactic categories, semantic structures, and phonetic and phonological structures feature in the volume, as do over 20 languages, in order to offer new insights into both theoretical and empirical issues in CLI, including the consequences of great or little similarity in structures between languages. The relevance of CLI research for teaching is discussed in a number of chapters, as is the phenomenon of multilingualism. The collection will appeal to researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, teachers and professionals interested in the field of CLI in SLA.

Preface
1. Terence Odlin: Was There Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?
2. Vivian Cook: Transfer and the Relationship between the Languages of Multi-competence
3. Håkan Ringbom: Comprehension, Learning and Production of Foreign Languages: The Role of Transfer
4. John A. Lucy: The Implications of Linguistic Relativity for Language Learning
5. Rena Helms-Park and Vedran Dronjic: Crosslinguistic Lexical Influence: Cognate Facilitation
6. Rosa Alonso Alonso, Teresa Cadierno and Scott Jarvis: Crosslinguistic Influence in the Acquisition of Spatial Prepositions in English as a Foreign Language
7. Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Xu Ziyan: Can Classroom Learners use Statistical Learning? A New Perspective on Motion Event Construal in a Second Language
8. Monika Ekiert and Zhaohong Han: L1-fraught Difficulty: The Case of L2 Acquisition of English Articles by Slavic Speakers
9. Panos Athanasopoulos and Bastien Boutonnet: Learning Grammatical Gender in a Second Language Changes
Categorization of Inanimate Objects: Replications and New Evidence from English Learners of L2 French
10. Ulrike Jessner, Manon Megens and Stefanie Graus: Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition
11. Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek: Contemporary Perspectives in Crosslinguistic Influence

The best minds working on crosslinguistic influence are gathered in this collection. The result is a fascinating empirical and intellectual journey of this field that all second language acquisition and bilingualism researchers must read!