Overview

The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the 's' ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2.

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Author:   Danuta Gabryś-Barker
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Volume:   No. 29
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.565kg
ISBN:  

9781847690654

ISBN 10:   1847690653
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   14 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Contributors I Studies on ESL/EFL Morphosyntactic Development 1. Focus constructions and meaning transfer - Terence Odlin (Ohio State University, USA) 2. Argument realization and information packaging in tough-movement constructions - a learner-corpus-based investigation - Marcus Callies (University of Marburg, Germany) 3. L1 syntactic preferences of Polish adolescents in bilingual and monolingual education programmes - Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 4. MOGUL and crosslinguistic influence - Mike Sharwood-Smith (Harriot-Watt University, Scotland) & John Truscott (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) 5. Syntactic processing of a multilingual language user (a case study)- Danuta Gabrys-Barker (University of Silesia, Poland) 6. The morphology -me in Modern Greek as L2: how German and Russian L2 learners interpret verbal constructions - Irini Kassotaki (University of Crete, Iraklio) 7. Unaccusativity marks - Konrad Szczesniak (University of Silesia, Poland) 8. To move or not to move: acquisition of L2 English syntactic movement parameter - Cem Can, Abdurrahman Kilimci and Esra Altunkol (Cukurova University,Turkey) 9. Last to acquire: on the relation of concession in interpreting - Andrzej Lyda (University of Silesia, Poland) 10. Pragmatic (in) competence in EFL writing learners - Ruediger Zimmermann (University of Marburg, Germany) II. Pedagogical grammar in promoting acquisition of L2 morphosyntax 11. The role of explicit rule presentation in teaching English articles to Polish learners - Agnieszka Krol-Markefka (Jagiellonian University in Krak w, Poland) 12. The effect of corrective feedback on the acquisition of the English third person- s ending - Miroslaw Pawlak (University, Poznan, Poland) 13. The acquisition of German syntax by Polish learners in classroom conditions - Barbara Sadownik (Marie Curie University in Lublin, Poland) 14. Introducing language interface in pedagogical grammar - Michal Paradowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) 15. Towards reflecting the dynamic nature of grammar in language instruction: expectations and current pedagogic practice - Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna)

Reviews

This volume should be of interest not only to linguists and applied linguists, but also to graduate researchers of SLA since many of the contributions include reviews of the relevant theoretical issues. It is an excellent volume with challenging insights that should lead to a new thinking on morphosyntax development in SLA and to a departure from more traditional empirical data measurement to newer introspective-type research instrumentation. Dr Muiris A Laoire, Department of Languages, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland

Author Information

Danuta GabryA'-Barker lectures in applied linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. Her main areas of interest are multilingualism and affectivity in SLA. Professor GabryA'-Barker has published numerous articles and two books Aspects of Multilingual Storage, Processing and Retrieval (2005) and Reflectivity in Pre-service Teacher Education (2012). She is the chief editor (together with Eva Vetter) of the International Journal of Multilingualism.

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