Effects of Frequency in Classroom Second Language Learning

2008
 |  English language
Effects of Frequency in Classroom Second Language Learning

Author: Tomoko Tode

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN: 3039116029

Category: English language

Page: 208

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The view of exemplar-based second language learning emphasizes the importance of frequency in learning grammar. According to this view, type frequency rather than token frequency contributes to learning generalized knowledge beyond item-based constructions. This book investigates how frequency in experiencing exemplars affects the learning of the English primary verb be by junior high school students in Japan. The study consists of a quasi-experiment and stimulated-recall analysis of the data. The quasi-experiment compares three kinds of output practice: practice with increased type frequency, practice with increased token frequency, and practice without increased frequency. The experiment also explores how the frequency effects relate to the extent of explicit knowledge about the target structures. In the stimulated-recall analysis, learners engaging in the type frequency practice and those engaging in the token frequency practice are compared in terms of thought processes employed while practicing. The book discusses how frequency promotes classroom second language learning by taking the role of awareness of form-meaning connections into consideration.

Frequency Effects In Instructed Second Language Acquisition

2015-11-13
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Frequency Effects In Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Author: Karin Madlener

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110405538

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 377

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Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

Practice in a Second Language

2007-03-12
 |  Foreign Language Study
Practice in a Second Language

Author: Robert DeKeyser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521684048

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 342

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This volume focuses on 'practice' from a theoretical perspective and includes implications for the classroom.

Frequency Effects In Instructed Second Language Acquisition

2015-11-13
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Frequency Effects In Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Author: Karin Madlener

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110423594

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 377

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Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

2008-05-14
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition

Author: Danuta Gabryś-Barker

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

ISBN: 9781788920582

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 279

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The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the ‘s’ ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2.

Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition

2004-07-21
 |  Education
Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition

Author: Bill VanPatten

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135614195

Category: Education

Page: 360

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Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition is an interdisciplinary and timely edited book of essays and empirical studies, most of which are based on the papers presented at the Form and Meaning Conference held in Chicago in 2002. The goal of the conference and now of the book is to present linguistic and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition, attempting to integrate external and internal issues in interlanguage development, while outlining directions for future research. The editors address questions, such as: What is the nature and sequence of the form-meaning mapping process? How are these connections made? How are these connections used to construct grammars and lexicons? And, how can conditions and external factors be manipulated to improve the chances of making these form-meaning connections? Contributors to this volume include such second language acquisition scholars as Susan Gass, Nick Ellis, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Catherine Doughty, and Diane Larsen-Freeman. They address these form-meaning issues from a variety of settings and from multiple perspectives. Researchers and graduate students in applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and language pedagogy will find this volume to be an important resource.

Pragmatics & Language Learning, Volume 11

2006
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Pragmatics & Language Learning, Volume 11

Author: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr

ISBN: 9780824831370

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 432

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"This volume features cutting-edge research on L2 pragmatics from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. It offers fresh perspectives on standard topics such as the use and learning of speech acts and the pragmatic meanings of linguistic resources, and the effect of planned intervention on pragmatic development in language instruction. The chapters also document researchers' increasing attention to different forms of computer-mediated communication as environments for using and developing L2 pragmatic competence, and of conversation analysis as an approach to different aspects of interaction in a variety of settings."--Publisher's website (nflrc.hawaii.edu/).

The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

2009
 |  Second language acquisition
The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Author: William C. Ritchie

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9781848552401

Category: Second language acquisition

Page: 745

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"The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition" is a thoroughly revised, re-organized, and re-worked edition of Ritchie and Bhatia's 1996 handbook. The work is divided into six parts, each devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA. Part I includes a recent history of methods used in SLA research and an overview of currently used methods. Part II contains chapters on Universal Grammar, emergentism, variationism, information-processing, sociocultural, and cognitive-linguistic. Part III is devoted to overviews of SLA research on lexicon, morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics, sentence processing, and the distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge. Part IV examines neuropsycholgy of SLA, another on child SLA, and the effects of age on second language acquisition and use. Part V is concerned with the contribution of the linguistic environment to SLA, including work on acquisition in different environments, through the Internet, and by deaf learners. Finally, Part VI treats social factors in SLA, including research on acquisition in contact circumstances, on social identity in SLA, on individual differences in SLA, and on the final state of SLA, bilingualism.

New Perspectives on CALL for Second Language Classrooms

2013-06-17
 |  Education
New Perspectives on CALL for Second Language Classrooms

Author: Sandra Fotos

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135628482

Category: Education

Page: 370

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This practical handbook is designed to help language teachers, teacher trainers, and students learn more about their options for using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and develop an understanding of the theory and research supporting these options. The chapters in New Perspectives on CALL for Second Language Classrooms synthesize previous CALL theory and research and describe practical applications to both second and foreign language classrooms, including procedures for evaluating these applications. The implementation of CALL at the institutional level is also addressed, with attention to designing multimedia language laboratories and creating collaborative CALL-based projects between educational institutions. Although many chapters locate their descriptions of CALL activities and projects within the ESL/EFL setting, the principles and activities described are equally useful for other language settings. The book does not require prior knowledge of CALL, computers, or software. To assist readers, a glossary of CALL terms and an appendix of CALL Web sites are provided. The book also has its own accompanying Web site (http://www.erlbaum.com/callforL2classrooms) presenting chapter abstracts, author contact information, and regularly updated links to pedagogical, research, and teacher development sites. By integrating theoretical issues, research findings, and practical guidelines on different aspects of CALL, this book offers teachers multiple levels of resources for their own professional development, for needs-based creation of specific CALL activities, for curriculum design, and for implementation of institutional and inter-institutional CALL projects.

Consciousness and Second Language Learning

2014
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Consciousness and Second Language Learning

Author: John Truscott

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

ISBN: 9781783092666

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 300

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The book offers a novel view of consciousness and its place in second language learning, using the established cognitive framework, MOGUL. It also provides an extensive review of theories of consciousness and related cognitive theory and research, placing that work in the context of second language learning.

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

2013-11-07
 |  Language Arts & Disciplines
Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

Author: Jenefer Philp

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135914530

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 248

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Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume. In spite of the many hours that language learners spend interacting with peers in the classroom, there is a tendency to evaluate the usefulness of this time by comparison to whole class interaction with the teacher. Yet teachers are teachers and peers are peers – as partners in interaction, they are likely to offer very different kinds of learning opportunities. This book encourages researchers and instructors alike to take a new look at the potential of peer interaction to foster second language development. Acknowledging the context of peer interaction as highly dynamic and complex, the book considers the strengths and limitations of peer work from a range of theoretical perspectives. In doing so, Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning clarifies features of effective peer interaction for second language learning across a range of educational contexts, age spans, proficiency levels, and classroom tasks and settings.