Chapters

1. Introduction 6. SLA and Linguistics

2. Looking at Interlanguage 7. Universal Grammar
Data 8. Looking at Interlanguage
Second Language Acquisition 3. The Role of the Native Processes
Language: An Historical 9. Interlanguage in Context
Overview 10. Input, Interaction, and
An Introductory Course 4. Child Language Output
Acquisition: First and 11. Instructed Second
Second Language Learning
5. Recent Perspectives on 12. Nonlanguage Influences
the Role of Previously
Known Languages 13. The Lexicon

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Introduction
• The study of SLA
Chapter 1 • Definitions
• The nature of language
• The nature of nonnative speaker
Introduction
knowledge

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Introduction
Chapter 2
• The nature of language
• Sound systems
• Syntax
• Morphology Looking at Interlanguage Data
• The lexicon
• Pragmatics

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 Looking at IL Data Looking at IL Data
• Data analysis • Data elicitation
• What data analysis doesn’t reveal • Standardized language tests
• Data collection • Tests from psychology
• Language elicitation measures
• Data elicitation
• Replication
• What is acquisition?

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The Role of the NL:

An Historical Overview

Chapter 3 • An historical perspective

• The contrastive analysis hypothesis
The Role of the Native Language: • Error analysis
An Historical Overview

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The Role of the NL:

An Historical Overview

• An historical perspective Chapter 4

• Psychological background
• Linguistic background
Child Language Acquisition:
First and Second

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 Child Language Acquisition: Child Language Acquisition:
First and Second First and Second
• Child first language acquisition • Child first language acquisition
• Theories of learning • Babbling
• Child second language acquisition • Words
• Sounds and pronunciation
• Child second language morpheme
order studies • Syntax
• Morphology

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Recent Perspectives on the Role of

Previously Known Languages

Chapter 5 • Morpheme order studies

Recent Perspectives on the Role of • Revised perspectives on the role of the native
Previously Known Languages language

• Interlanguage transfer
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Recent Perspectives on the Role of

Previously Known Languages
• Revised perspectives on the role of the native
language Chapter 6
• Avoidance
• Differential learning rates
• Different paths SLA and Linguistics
• Overproduction
• Predictability/selectivity

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SLA and Linguistics SLA and Linguistics

• Language universals • Typological universals

• The NP accessibility hierarchy
• Typological universals • The acquisition of questions
• Voicing of obstruents
• Tense and aspect • Tense and aspect
• The aspect hypothesis
• Phonology • The discourse hypothesis
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Universal Grammar
Chapter 7
• Universal Grammar

• Transfer: The UG perspective

Universal Grammar
• Minimalist program

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Universal Grammar Universal Grammar

• Universal Grammar • Transfer: The UG perspective
• Initial state • Levels of representation
• UG principles • Clustering
• UG parameters • Learnability
• Falsification: UG and typological
universals

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 Looking at Interlanguage Processes
• The competition model
Chapter 8 • The monitor model
• Critiques of the monitor model
• Alternative modes of knowledge
Looking at Interlanguage Processes
representation
• Connectionism

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Looking at Interlanguage Processes Looking at Interlanguage Processes

• The monitor model
• The acquisition-learning hypothesis
• The natural order hypothesis
• The monitor hypothesis
• The input hypothesis
• The affective filter hypothesis
• Critiques of the monitor model
• The acquisition-learning hypothesis
• The natural order hypothesis
• The monitor hypothesis
• The input hypothesis
• The affective filter hypothesis

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Interlanguage in Context

Chapter 9 • Variation

• Systematic variation
Interlanguage in Context
• Communicative strategies

• Interlanguage pragmatics
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 Interlanguage in Context
• Systematic variation
• Linguistic context
• Social context relating to
Chapter 10
• The native language
• Social context relating to Input, Interaction,
• Interlocutor and Output
• Task type
• Conversational topic

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Input, Interaction, and Output Input, Interaction, and Output

‹ Input ‹ Output

‹ Comprehension – Hypothesis testing

‹ Interaction – Feedback
– Automaticity
‹ Output
– Meaning-based to grammatically-based
‹ The role of input and interaction in processing
language learning
‹ Limitations of input

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Input, Interaction, and Output

‹ Therole of input and interaction in
language learning
– Attention
Chapter 11
– Contrast theory
– Metalinguistic awareness
Instructed Second
Language Learning

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 Instructed Second Instructed Second
Language Learning Language Learning

• Classroom language • Focus on Form

• Input processing • Timing
• Teachability/learnability • Forms to focus on

• Focus on form
• Uniqueness of instruction

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Non-language Influences on SLA

Chapter 12
• Research traditions

• Linguistics
Non-language influences on SLA
• Psychology

• Psycholinguistics
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Non-language Influences on SLA Non-language Influences on SLA

• Social distance • Anxiety

• Age differences • Locus of control
• Aptitude • Personality factors
• Motivation • Extroversion and introversion
• Motivation over the long term and the short • Risk taking
term • Field independence
• Motivations as a function of time and success • Learning strategies
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 Chapter 13 The Lexicon
• The significance of the lexicon
• Lexical knowledge
The Lexicon • Lexical information
• Lexical skills

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The Lexicon The Lexicon

• Lexical information • Lexical skills
– Word associations – Production
– Incidental vocabulary learning – Perception
– Incremental vocabulary learning – Word formation
– Memory metaphors – Word combinations, collocations,
and phraseology

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