Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory
Editors
This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann 1998, 2005). The aim of the book is to provide a forum for new perspectives focusing on three intersections: (1) the interface between morpho-syntax and discourse/pragmatics/semantics, (2) constraints on processing and receptive processing and (3) developments in instructed second language learning. Each part also includes a response paper, in which the new perspectives, in terms of the theoretical challenges and/or the empirical results of the preceding chapters are discussed. This collection of articles and response papers will be very relevant to students and researchers interested in theoretical aspects of second language acquisition, and more specifically Processability Theory, and clearly indicates that the field is lively and open.
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 4] 2015. vii, 273 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
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Chapter 1. Processability theory: Assessment of the current state and future perspectivesKristof Baten, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe | pp. 1–18
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Interface between Morpho-Syntax and Discourse/Pragmatics/Semantics
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Chapter 2. Processing Alignments: Semantic, Thematic and Structural Prominence in Samoan SLAHelen Charters and Grant Muagututi’a | pp. 19–44
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Chapter 3. The emergence of sentence Topic in a Topicprominent language: A descriptive study of L2 ChineseYanyin Zhang | pp. 45–70
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Chapter 4. The Acquisition of the Ergative Case in Hindi as a Foreign LanguageKristof Baten and Saartje Verbeke | pp. 71–104
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Chapter 5. Response Paper: Exploring the Interface between Morpho-Syntax and Discourse/Pragmatics/SemanticsAnke Lenzing and Manfred Pienemann | pp. 105–112
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Constraints on Processing and Receptive Processing
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Chapter 6. Constraints on Processing: L1 Transfer and the L2 Initial Mental Grammatical SystemAnke Lenzing | pp. 113–138
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Chapter 7. Studying Receptive Grammar Acquisition within a PT Framework: A Methodological ExplorationAafke Buyl | pp. 139–168
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Chapter 8. Response Paper: Exploring new Grounds – Turning the PT KaleidoscopeGisela Håkansson | pp. 169–174
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Developments in Instructed Second Language Learning
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Chapter 9. PT meets CA: Second Language Research at the CrossroadsJörg-U. Keßler and Götz Schwab | pp. 175–204
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Chapter 10. Instructing Stages of Processability Theory in L2 Spanish: Next or Next + 1?Carrie L. Bonilla | pp. 205–238
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Index | pp. 271–274
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Chapter 11. Implications of the Developmental Stages of Language Acquisition for Classroom TeachingEvelyn Doman | pp. 239–262
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Chapter 12. Response Paper: Language Teaching and Learning from a PT PerspectiveJana Roos | pp. 263–270
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDC: Language acquisition
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General