Ecology of Language Acquisition (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Leather, J. H.; Dam, Jet van

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401703413
• Artikelnr.: 44183414

Inhaltsangabe

1 Towards an ecology of language acquisition.- 2 Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities: Foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition.- 3 A tale of two computer classrooms: The ecology of project-based language learning.- 4 From joint attention to language acquisition: How infants learn to control others- behavior.- 5 Beyond cognitive determination: Interactionism in the acquisition of spatial semantics.- 6 Language socialization in children's religious education: The discursive and affective construction of identity.- 7 An integrational linguistic view of coming into language: Reflexivity and metonymy.- 8 The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment.- 9 Robot babies: What can they teach us about language acquisition?.- 10 Borrowing words: Appropriations in child second language discourse.- 11 Language acquisition behind the scenes: Collusion and play in educational settings.