Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom
This book proposes that research into generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) can be applied to the language classroom. Assuming that Universal Grammar plays a role in second language development, it explores generalisations from GenSLA research. The book aims to build bridges between the fi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Educational Linguistics,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Generative second language acquisition and language pedagogy
- Part I: GenSLA Applied to the Classroom
- 2. What research can tell us about teaching: The case of pronouns and clitics
- 3. L2 Acquisition of null subjects in Japanese: A new generative perspective and its pedagogical implications
- 4. Verb movement in generative SLA and the teaching of word order patterns
- 5. Modifying the teaching of modifiers: A lesson from Universal Grammar
- 6. The syntax-discourse interface and the interface between generative theory and pedagogical approaches to SLA
- Part II: GenSLA and Classroom Research
- 7. Alternations and argument structure in second language English: Knowledge of two types of intransitive verbs
- 8. Quantifiers: form and meaning in second language development
- 9. Explicit article instruction in definiteness, specificity, genericity and perception
- Part III: GenSLA, the Language Classroom, and Beyond
- 10. Whether to teach and how to teach complex linguistic structures in a second language
- 11. Great expectations in phonology: Second language acquisition research and its relation to the teaching of older and younger learners
- 12. Applied Generative SLA: The need for an agenda and a methodology
- Subject index . .
