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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Thorsten Piske , Martha Young-ScholtenPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Volume: No. 35 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9781847691101ISBN 10: 1847691102 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 23 December 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly 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 ContentsReviewsInput matters in SLA is essential reading for those who are in the field of SLA research and will also be useful for teachers of SL/FL, since input continues to be one of the most discussed areas in SLA. Julia Baron, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainThe volume constitutes a major contribution to the understanding of the role of input in l 2 acquisition, and especially in l 2 phonology, an area where input has not been investigated systematically. I think that l 2 researchers and graduate students will find this volume quite appealing and would consider it a required reading for anyone planning to undertake research projects on l 2 input.Monica Cabrera, Loyola Marymount University, USA in Linguist List 20.4070This book has the great merit of appealing to quite different kinds of reader. To delve into technically complex issues, second language researchers had to part company some time ago with the more practically oriented world of language pedagogy. Without understanding what happens in people's minds when they process what they are exposed to, we cannot make real progress in shaping efficient learning programmes but still we really need books like this one to bring issues of theory and issues of practice together. Input Matters covers a diversity of topics. Part 1 deals with more general issues and features some key players in the history of input studies, notably Stephen Krashen and Bill VanPatten. Kees de Bot and colleagues also provide a fresh new way of looking at how input is organised in the mind, providing diversity as well as depth to this first part of the book. Part 2, also featuring prominent researchers, focusses on phonology so speech input is the dominant theme. This book will have great appeal to theorists and practitioners alike. Mike Sharwood SmithThis book has the great merit of appealing to quite different kinds of reader. This book will have great appeal to theorists and practitioners alike. Mike Sharwood Smith Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.deThorsten Piske is affiliated with the University of Education in Schwabisch Gmund, Germany. His research focuses on first and second language acquisition and on bilingual education. He is well known for joint work with James E. Flege on factors affecting degree of foreign accent in a second language. He has done research on the production and perception of first and second language speech sounds and on the effectiveness of bilingual programs in kindergartens and primary schools. Currently at Newcastle University in England, Martha Young-Scholten works on morpho-syntax and phonology. She is well known for joint work with Anne Vainikka on uninstructed adultsaEURO(t) development of morpho-syntax in German. Prosodic structure, orthographic input and the phonological awareness of low-literate immigrant adults are some of the lines of research she pursues in the second language acquisition of phonology. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.deCountries AvailableAll regions |
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