Linguistic Relativity in SLA
Title | Linguistic Relativity in SLA PDF eBook |
Author | Zhaohong Han |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 184769277X |
Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. Although the field has come a long way in understanding its general character, many issues still remain a conundrum, for example, why does transfer appear selective, and why does transfer never seem to go away for certain linguistic elements? Unlike most existing studies, which have focused on transfer at the surface form level, the present volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. The chapters in this collection conceptually explore and empirically investigate the relevance of Slobin's thinking-for-speaking hypothesis to adult second language acquisition, offering compelling and enlightening evidence of the fundamental nature of crosslinguistic influence in adult second language acquisition "This is a landmark publication - the first to concertedly address the implications for SLA of Slobin's thinking-for-speaking hypothesis. Do processes of conceptualisation that L1s predispose speakers to affect their L2 production, and if so in what ways? Can we `re-think' for L2 speaking, and what cognitive abilities enable this? The research issues this book raises are fundamentally important for SLA theory and pedagogy alike." Peter Robinson, Professor of Linguistics and SLA, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan "Language affects how we think. Slobin's (1996) thinking-for-speaking hypothesis concerns the ways that native language directs speakers' attention to pick those characteristics of events that are readily encodable therein. In this impressive collection, Han and Cadierno marshal strong support for effects of native language upon second language use, i.e. for `rethinking-for-speaking'. A must-read for anybody interested in linguistic relativity and transfer in SLA." Nick Ellis, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA
Linguistic Relativity in SLA
Title | Linguistic Relativity in SLA PDF eBook |
Author | ZhaoHong Han |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2010-06-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847693997 |
Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. Although the field has come a long way in understanding its general character, many issues still remain a conundrum, for example, why does transfer appear selective, and why does transfer never seem to go away for certain linguistic elements? Unlike most existing studies, which have focused on transfer at the surface form level, the present volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. The chapters in this collection conceptually explore and empirically investigate the relevance of Slobin’s Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis to adult second language acquisition, offering compelling and enlightening evidence of the fundamental nature of crosslinguistic influence in adult second language acquisition.
Language Diversity and Thought
Title | Language Diversity and Thought PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Lucy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 1992-07-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521387972 |
An examination of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on the relationship between grammar and thought.
Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition
Title | Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa Alonso Alonso |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2016-01-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1783094842 |
This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters focusing on vocabulary, morphosyntactic categories, semantic structures, and phonetic and phonological structures feature in the volume, as do over 20 languages, in order to offer new insights into both theoretical and empirical issues in CLI, including the consequences of great or little similarity in structures between languages. The relevance of CLI research for teaching is discussed in a number of chapters, as is the phenomenon of multilingualism. The collection will appeal to researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, teachers and professionals interested in the field of CLI in SLA.
Linguistic Relativities
Title | Linguistic Relativities PDF eBook |
Author | John Leavitt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2010-12-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139494872 |
There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language differences have generally been treated either as of no importance or as all-important, depending on broader approaches taken to human life and knowledge. It was only in the twentieth century, in the work of Franz Boas and his students, that an attempt was made to engage seriously with the reality of language specificities. Since the 1950s, this work has been largely presented as yet another claim that language differences are all-important by cognitive scientists and philosophers who believe that such differences are of no importance. This book seeks to correct this misrepresentation and point to the new directions taken by the Boasians, directions now being recovered in the most recent work in psychology and linguistics.
Ideologies of Linguistic Relativity
Title | Ideologies of Linguistic Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | Ferruccio Rossi-Landi |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 2019-05-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110812894 |
No detailed description available for "Ideologies of Linguistic Relativity".
Understanding Second Language Process
Title | Understanding Second Language Process PDF eBook |
Author | Zhaohong Han |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847690130 |
This is a collection of 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of second language acquisition, probing a wide array of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages.