'The boat's gonna leave'
A study of children learning a second language from conversations with other children
This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children. The study seeks to integrate the process of second language learning in the general framework of child development, concentrating in particular on the development of language and conversational skills.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:1] 1980. vi, 116 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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1. Introduction | p. 1
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1.1 Purpose of the study
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1.2 Background: play, thought, language, and social skills
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1.3 Conversation, play, and second language acquisition
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1.4 Why conversation-play?
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2. Description of the Study | p. 17
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2.1 The subjects
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2.2 Data collection
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2.3 Conversation topic
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2.4 Situated and displaced speech
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3. First Steps | p. 33
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3.1 Routines in situated speech
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3.2 Language learning in situated speech discourse
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3.3 Summary
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4. Towards Conversation | p. 53
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4.1 Sound-play
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4.2 Pretend conversation-play
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4.3 Language learning in displaced speech discourse
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4.4 Summary
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5. Conversational Strategies
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5.1 Argument
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5.2 A matter of involvement
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5.3 A matter of flexibility
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5.4 A matter of ambiguity
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5.5 Summary
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6. Conclusions | p. 99
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6.1 General findings
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6.2 Implications for research
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6.3 Implications for education
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Footnotes | p. 109
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Guilfoyle, Natalie & Malini Mistry
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Spolsky, Bernard
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General