The Dynamic Interlanguage Empirical Studies in Second Language Variation

Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule­ governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been enriched by the notion of an actual interlocutor who possesses communicat...

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Other Authors: Eisenstein, Miriam R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Topics in Language and Linguistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1: On Chameleons and Monitors
  • 2: A Cognitive View on Interlanguage Variability
  • 3: Does the Bioprogram Affect Second-Language Acquisition?
  • 4: Assessing an Interaction-Based Paradigm: How Accommodative Should We Be?
  • 5: Incorporated Repairs in Nonnative Discourse
  • 6: Interlinguistic Variation and Similarity in Foreigner Talk: Illustrated with Respect to English-Speaking and German-Speaking Contexts
  • 7: The Effect of Cultural Empathy on Second-Language Phonological Production
  • 8: Variation and Convergence in Nonnative Institutionalized Englishes
  • 9: Different Paths to Writing Proficiency in a Second Language? A Preliminary Investigation of ESL Writers of Short-Term and Long-Term Residence in the United States
  • 10: Variation and Transfer in English Creole—Standard English Language Learning
  • 11: Dialect Variation and Second-Language Intelligibility
  • 12: Systematic Variability in Second-Language Tense Marking
  • 13: Sociolinguistic Variation in Face-Threatening Speech Acts: Chastisement and Disagreement
  • 14: The Social Dynamics of Native and Nonnative Variation in Complimenting Behavior
  • 15: That Reminds Me of a Story: The Use of Language to Express Emotion by Second-Language Learners and Native Speakers
  • 16: Classroom Foreign Language Learning and Language Variation: The Notion of Pedagogical Norms
  • 17: Discourse Conditioned Tense Variation: Teacher Implications
  • 18: The Colloquial Preterit: Language Variation and the ESL Classroom