The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027221650 ISBN 13: 9789027221650

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995

Synopsis

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge; the way that linguistic knowledge is represented by L2 learners; the changing nature of linguistic theory itself; and the definition of usage phenomena like style shifting and code switching. The introduction to The Current State of Interlanguage gives a concise yet detailed overview of research in the field over the past 10 years, and focuses on the present growing concensus on a number of issues that were at one point highly controversial.

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Synopsis

This collection of studies in honour of Professor William R. Rutherford considers a number of issues associated with interlanguage. It begins with papers related to Rutherford's work, and moves on to others he has considered, like the influence of L1-typological features on semantic properties.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 9027221650
• ISBN 13: 9789027221650
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 301
• Editor: Eubank Lynn, Selinker Larry, Sharwood Smith Michael