Lourdes Ortega, Heidi Byrnes

The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores, for the first time, contemporary thinking about the theoretical and empirical link between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780805861730
• ISBN-10: 0805861734
• Artikelnr.: 25009364

Autorenporträt

Lourdes Ortega is Associate Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i. Her research interests include second language acquisition, second language writing, and research methods. Recent publications are Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching (co-edited with John Norris, Benjamins) and Understanding Second Language Acquisition (Arnold). Heidi Byrnes is George M. Roth Distinguished Professor of German at Georgetown University. Her research focus is the acquisition of L2 academic literacy by adult instructed learners. Recent publications include Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment (co-edited with Heather Weger-Guntharp and Katherine A. Sprang, Georgetown University Press); and Advanced Language Learning: The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky (Continuum).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. The longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities:
An introduction Lourdes Ortega & Heidi Byrnes Part I- Theoretical and
methodological explorations Chapter 2. Developing qualitative longitudinal
case studies of advanced language learners Linda Harklau Chapter 3.
Systemic Functional Linguistic explorations into the longitudinal study of
the advanced capacities: The case of Spanish heritage language learners
Mariana Achugar & M. Cecilia Colombi Chapter 4. Investigating learner
language development with electronic longitudinal corpora: Theoretical and
methodological issues Florence Myles Chapter 5. Planning, collecting,
exploring, and archiving longitudinal L2 data: Experiences from the P-MoLL
Project Romuald Skiba, Norbert Dittmar, & Jana Bressem Chapter 6. Issues in
the quantitative longitudinal measurement of second language progress in
the study abroad context Jonathan Rees & John Klapper Part II- Empirical
investigations Chapter 7. Advancedness and the development of
relativization in L2 German: A curriculum-based study Heidi Byrnes & Castle
Sinicrope Chapter 8. Advanced learners' development of systematic
vocabulary knowledge: Learning German vocabulary with inseparable prefixes
Katherine A. Sprang Chapter 9. Teaching grammatical meaning to advanced
learners: A cognitive-semantic perspective Olga Liamkina Chapter 10. L1-L2
Translation vs. No Translation: A longitudinal study of Focus-on-FormS
within a meaning-focused curriculum Marie Källkvist Chapter 11.
Longitudinal gain of higher-order inferential abilities in L2 English:
Accuracy, speed, and conventionality Naoko Taguchi Chapter 12. Histories of
engagement and sociolinguistic awareness in study abroad: Colloquial French
Celeste Kinginger & Géraldine Blattner Chapter 13. Acquiring oral language
skills over the course of a high school year abroad: What's in it for
absolute beginners? Allison J. Spenader Chapter 14. An ethnographic
longitudinal approach to the development of assessment for advanced
competencies of medical interpreters Claudia V. Angelelli Coda Chapter 15.
Theorizing advancedness, setting up the longitudinal research agenda
Lourdes Ortega & Heidi Byrnes