Grammatical Development in Language Learning: The Best of Language Learning SeriesISBN: 978-1-4051-3581-8
Paperback
246 pages
April 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Why is learning the grammar of a second language difficult? The
present volume brings together insights from leading researchers,
published in the past five years of the journal Language Learning,
to identify the multiple factors that combine to challenge learners
in attaining full proficiency in a second language.
- An innovative synthesis of recent research on grammar and
second language acquisition.
- Highlights the importance of transparency in form-meaning
relations as well as learners' aptitudes and previous language
learning experiences.
- Shows how diminutives facilitate gender acquisition in
Russian.
- Demonstrates how learners make semantic distinctions in
acquiring gender distinction in French.
- Evaluates the role of phonological short-term memory in the
acquisition of gender in a semi-artificial linguistic system.
- A useful collection for a graduate seminar on psycholinguistic aspects of second language acquisition.