The Current State of Interlanguage
Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford
- Editor(s): Lynn Eubank 1 , Larry Selinker 2 and Michael Sharwood Smith 3
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of North Texas2 University of London3 University of Utrecht
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date November 1995
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027285744
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/z.73
This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge; the way that linguistic knowledge is represented by L2 learners; the changing nature of linguistic theory itself; and the definition of usage phenomena like style shifting and code switching. The introduction to The Current State of Interlanguage gives a concise yet detailed overview of research in the field over the past 10 years, and focuses on the present growing concensus on a number of issues that were at one point highly controversial.
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