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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Roy C. MajorPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9780805838138ISBN 10: 0805838139 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 March 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""A major strength of Major's work is his delineation of the parameters of the OPM....Major is to be congratulated on producing a work that can be read profitably by specialists and nonspecialists alike....this book provides a readable overview of L2 phonological research and theory....[Readers] who are looking for an overview of a complex area of L2 acquisition, along with an explanatory mechanism and theory of the same, will need look no further."" —The Modern Language Journal ""It is much to Major's credit that he has developed a truly comprehensive model of the basic structural sources that shape IL in its development. In doing so, he not only synthesizes much previous work (including his own) on variability, transfer, developmental processes, universals, markedness and similarity as determining factors in SLA but, more significantly, he produces out of this a deceptively simple and workable typology of far-reaching relevance for a whole series of linguistic phenomena....the OPM should function as an important orientation marker for future research in SLA and should...enlighten second language professionals as to the basically simple structural factors involved in IL development."" —Second Language Research" A major strength of Major's work is his delineation of the parameters of the OPM....Major is to be congratulated on producing a work that can be read profitably by specialists and nonspecialists alike....this book provides a readable overview of L2 phonological research and theory....[Readers] who are looking for an overview of a complex area of L2 acquisition, along with an explanatory mechanism and theory of the same, will need look no further. -The Modern Language Journal It is much to Major's credit that he has developed a truly comprehensive model of the basic structural sources that shape IL in its development. In doing so, he not only synthesizes much previous work (including his own) on variability, transfer, developmental processes, universals, markedness and similarity as determining factors in SLA but, more significantly, he produces out of this a deceptively simple and workable typology of far-reaching relevance for a whole series of linguistic phenomena....the OPM should function as an important orientation marker for future research in SLA and should...enlighten second language professionals as to the basically simple structural factors involved in IL development. -Second Language Research Author InformationRoy C. Major is Professor of English at Arizona State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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