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Investigating Second Language Acquisition

Peter Jordens editor Josine Lalleman editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:29th Aug '96

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Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Lalleman's opener is a ramblimg state-of-the-art-in SLA, coping with the difficult task of compression; this is followed by a neat and tidy summary of the history of tranfer with respect to the acquisition of grammar by Sharwood Smith - I Particulary enjoyed his apocryphal dialogue between a Ladonian, a Dulayo-Burtian, and a Selinkerian on the interpretation of 'No is true'. Eric Kellerman in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge, March 1999

ISBN: 9783110151503

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 951g

483 pages

Reprint 2010