Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition

A language processing perspective

Bronwen Patricia Dyson | University of Sydney

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ISBN 9789027210524 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00

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Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered stages of language acquisition, the book provides an informative, critical analysis of historical and contemporary debates about the role of variation in linguistic variation, particularly second language variation. Richly illustrated with a forensic year-long study of how eight adolescent learners of English vary in their acquisition of syntax and morphology, this monograph shows that learners vary in their timing of development between two distinct learner types along a continuum and without skipping stages. The book uncovers how learner variation is dynamic and quite (although not entirely) systematic and how this variation contributes to change in the second language. It will be essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners.

[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 8] 2021. xv, 274 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 July 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/palart.8

Table of Contents

Abbreviations | pp. xiii–xiv

Acknowledgements | pp. xv–15

Chapter 1. The challenge of dynamic variation in language processing
Chapter 2. Contemporary lenses on variation in SLA
Chapter 3. Origins of L2 variation as a dynamic linguistic system
Chapter 4. Dynamic variation as a dimension of processability
Chapter 5. A methodology for studying dynamic variation
Chapter 6. Dynamic variation in simplifying developmental problems
Chapter 7. Dynamic variation in developmental style
Chapter 8. Processability and developmental change
Chapter 9. The contribution of dynamic variation to SLA
References
Appendix

Name index | pp. 265–266

Subject index | pp. 267–274

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