Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Yumiko Yamaguchi Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 296 ISBN: 9783659360428
Описание
This book presents an in-depth investigation of the developmental path of English as a second language (ESL) acquisition. Understanding the natural acquisition process benefits syllabus construction and task designs in language education as formal instruction can be more efficient if the learner is developmentally ready. However, a majority of second language acquisition (SLA) studies are cross-sectional, and studies observing second language development over time, particularly those for more than one year, are very rare. This book, based on a two-year longitudinal study of a Japanese primary school child learning English in Australia, explores the staged development of English morphology and syntax within the framework of Processability Theory (PT), which is one of the current major SLA approaches. The research in this book provides valuable evidence supporting the PT hypotheses. It also addresses the issues of the relationship between morphological and syntactic development. The...
