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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Janusz Arabski , Adam WojtaszekPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Volume: No. 48 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.375kg ISBN: 9781847692412ISBN 10: 1847692419 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 23 December 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , 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 ContentsIntroduction to the volume by Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek I. Neurolinguistic Perspective 1. Identifying the neural substrates of second language acquisition: what is the contribution from functional and structural MRI? - Maurits van den Noort, Peggy Bosch, Tarik Hadzibeganovic, Katrien Mondt, Marco Haverkort & Kenneth Hugdahl 2. The Critical Period Hypothesis: evidence from information structural processing in French - Robert V. Reichle 3. On neuroanatomical substrates of dyslexia. With some implications for FL acquisition - Joanna Nijakowska 4. Emotion versus cognition, or what psycho- and neurolinguistics tell us about affectivity in SLA - Danuta Gabrys-Barker 5. Observable strategizing - on limbic communication in advanced users of language - Agnieszka Slezak-Swiat II. Psycholinguistic Perspective 6. Bilingual language control in translation tasks. A TAP study into mental effort management by inexperienced translators - Boguslawa Whyatt 7. A connectionist-enactivist perspective on learning to write - Jan Zalewski 8. Cross-linguistic conceptual influence from a bilingual perspective: in search of research paradigm - Jolanta Latkowska 9. On the asymmetry of verb-noun collocations - Wojciech Malec 10. Gender differences in L1 and L2 reading - Liliana Piasecka 11. An educational language community; external and internal language use by multilingual students - Anna Ewert 12. Language awareness in using cognate vocabulary: the case of Polish advanced students of English in the light of the theory of affordances - Agnieszka Otwinowska-KasztelanicReviewsThis book is a must for all interested in SLA, multilingualism and language learning in general. It offers a well-composed selection of thought-provocative perspectives stemming from neuro- and psycholinguistic studies focusing on the second language learner. The various scholars study a wide range of topics in two promising areas of research and thereby give evidence of the multifaceted nature of methodologies used in modern linguistics. This source will certainly open up new research avenues in the field. Ulrike Jessner, Universitat Innsbruck, Austria. Author InformationJanusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek both work at the University of Silesia, Poland. Their research interests include psycholinguistics, language acquisition and linguistic pragmatics. They are the editors of Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on SLA and The Acquisition of L2 Phonology, both recently published by Multilingual Matters. The editors and the contributing authors are active members of many scientific committees and organizations devoted to the investigation of language acquisition processes, and they regularly participate in many conferences and publish extensively. The author list comprises experienced scholars as well as young and promising researchers. Adam Wojtaszek is Associate Professor and the Deputy Director at the Institute of English, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. His major field of interest is linguistic pragmatics, psycholinguistics and language of persuasion. He has published two books on advertising language, Deciphering Radio Commercials - A Pragmatic Perspective (2002) and Theoretical Frameworks in the Study of Press Advertisements - Polish, British and Chinese Perspective (2011), as well as a number of articles on the topic. Within the area of psycholinguistics and second language acquisition studies, he has co-edited a number of volumes reporting on recent studies and developments, such as Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on SLA (2010), The Acquisition of L2 Phonology (2011a), Individual Learner Differences in SLA (2011b), Aspects of Culture in Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning (2011c), and recently Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective (2014). He is also the author of a chapter on morphosyntactic development in the volume edited by Danuta Gabrys-Barker, Readings in Second Language Acquisition (2012). He is also one of the organizers of the annual international SLA conference held in Szczyrk, Poland, a major event of international recognition, initiated in the mid 1980's by Janusz Arabski. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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