Foreign/Second Language Pedagogy Research: (64 Multilingual Matters)

This book offers a rich variety of research studies, theoretical and empirical, from Europe and North America in foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition. The 21 articles cover applied linguistics in an historical perspective, learner language, learner strategies and processes, classroom research and pragmatics and social competence.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Applied linguists in historical perspective: relationships between linguistics and applied linguistics - some Danish examples, Frans Gregersen; early language transfer experimental thought, Larry Selinker; some items on the hidden agenda of second/foreign language acquistion, Robert Phillipson; British applied linguistics - the conbribution of S.Pit Corder, Alan Davies. Part 2 Learner language: achieving proficiency in a second language - a processing description, Ellen Bialystok; analysing developing discourse structure - the NORWRITE project, Dorte Albrechtsen et al; IL - conceptual confusions and new beginnings, Michael Sharwood Smith. Part 3 Learner strategies and processes: strategies in second-language learning, Andrew Cohen; developing learners' procedural knowledge in comprehension, Kirsten Haastrup; grammar instruction, selective attention and learning processes, Susan Gass; compensatory strategies in second language research - implications for the classroom, Eric Kellerman; the other side of the page - integrating the study of communication strategies and negotiated input in SLA, George Yule and Elaine Tarone; crosslinguistic lexical influence and foreign language learning, Hakan Ringbom. Part 4 Classroom research: validation in second language classroom research and the evaluation of teaching methods, Craig Chaudron; what have we here? Some observations on the influence of instruction on L2 learning, Patsy Lighbown; understanding the language teacher, Mike Breen; manipulating and complementing content teaching to maximize second language learning, Merrill Swain. Part 5 From pragmatics to social competence: interlanguage pragmatics - the case of requests, Soshana Blum-Kulka; do learners talk too much? The waffle phenomenon in interlanguage pragmatics, Willis Edmondson and Juliane House; innovation in foreign language teaching, Johannes Wagner; bicultural competence and strategies for negotiating ethnic identity, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.

About the Author :
The five editors all hold senior university posts in applied linguistics and foreign/second language pedagogy, three in Western Europe and two in North America. Robert Phillipson is at Roskilde, Denmark, Eric Kellerman at Nijmegen, Holland, and Mike Sharwood Smith at Utrecht, Holland. Larry Selinker is at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA, Merrill Swain at the Modern Language Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto. Four of the editors did postgraduate study in foreign and second language learning at British universities, as did Claus Faerch. They have extensive experience of empirical and theoretical research in this field.