00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217610334453 Buklod 20120531153209.0 a r |||| u| ta 120531s2011 xx d r |||| u| 9780415549257 (pbk.) (iLib)UPD-00184905678 DLC DEDUC eng DMLUC P 118.2 A48 2011 Alternative approaches to second language acquisition edited by Dwight Atkinson. London Routledge 2011. xii, 190 p. ill. Introduction: cognitivism and second language acquisition / Dwight Atkinson -- The sociocultural approach to second language acquisition: sociocultural theory, second language acquisition, and artificial L2 development / James P. Lantolf -- A complexity theory approach to second language development/acquisition / Diane Larsen-Freeman -- An identity approach to second language acquisition / Bonny Norton and Carolyn McKinney -- Language socialization approaches to second language acquisition: social, cultural, and linguistic development in additional languages / Patricia A. Duff and Steven Talmy -- A conversation-analytic approach to second language acquisition / Gabriele Kasper and Johannes Wagner -- A sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition: how mind, body, and world work together in learning additional languages / Dwight Atkinson -- SLA after the social turn: where cognitivism and its alternatives stand / Lourdes Ortega. This volume presents six alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition -- 'alternative' in the sense that they contrast with and/or complement the cognitivism pervading the field. All six approaches -- sociocultural, complexity theory, conversation -- analytic, identity, language socialization, and sociocognitive -- are described according to the same set of six headings, allowing for direct comparison across approaches. Each chapter is authored by leading advocates for the approach described: James Lantolf for the sociocultural approach; Diane Larsen-Freeman for the complexity theory approach; Gabriele Kasper and Johannes Wagner for the conversation-analytic approach; Bonny Norton and Carolyn McKinney for the identity approach; Patricia Duff and Steven Talmy for the language socialization approach and Dwight Atkinson for the sociocognitive approach. Introductory and commentary chapters round out this volume. The editor's introduction describes the significance of alternative approaches to SLA studies given its strongly cognitivist orientation. Lourdes Ortega's commentary considers the six approaches from an 'enlightened traditional' perspective on SLA studies -- a viewpoint which is cognitivist in orientation but broad enough to give serious and balanced consideration to alternative approaches. This volume is essential reading in the field of second language acquisition. - Publisher. Second language acquisition Study and teaching. Language and languages Study and teaching. Atkinson, Dwight. FO Monograph UPD DEDUC P 118.2 A48 2011 Book