Margaret Thomas

Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition

A History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the tradition of ahistoricity within the field of second language (L2) acquisition theory. The author shows that L2 theory has a long and fruitful past within western linguistics and that notions of universal grammar have for some time shaped, and been shaped by, people's understanding of L2 learning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780415310376
• ISBN-10: 0415310377
• Artikelnr.: 21245697

Autorenporträt

Margaret Thomas is Associate Professor in the Program in Linguistics at Boston College. She is the author of Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language (1993), and has published articles in Language, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, The Linguistic Review and Historiographia Linguistica

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Ancient Greece and Rome 3. Languages and Language
Learning from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian Renaissance 4. The Middle
Ages 5. From Discovery of the Particular to Seventeenth-Century Universal
Languages 6. General Grammer Through the Nineteenth Century 7.
Conceptualization of Universal Grammer and Second Language Learning in the
Twentieth Century 8. Afterword