
Usage in Second Language Acquisition
Critical Reflections and Future Directions
- 202 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The study of "usage" has constituted a major line of second language learning research for decades now. The concept of usage, however, can be defined and studied in many different ways.
In this comprehensive, forward-looking text, international scholars from a variety of perspectives review and critically examine current conceptualizations of usage, learning, and their connections in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Bringing these diverse perspectives into conversation, Kevin McManus synthesizes the state of the art to set the agenda for new directions in theory-building and empirical SLA research.
This text will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers in SLA, applied linguistics, psychology and cognitive science, education, and related areas.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- 1 Introducing usage in SLA
- 2 Corpus-linguistic approaches to usage in SLA
- 3 Multimodal resources and action: A conversation-analytic approach to SLA and usage
- 4 Usage and variationist approaches to SLA
- 5 What counts as usage in Dynamic Usage-Based models?
- 6 Cognitive-linguistic approaches to SLA and usage
- 7 Usage in ISLA from a processing-based perspective
- 8 Skill acquisition theory: Learning-to-use and usage-for-learning SLA
- 9 Synthesizing usage in SLA
- Index
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