Ecology of Language Acquisition

J.H. Leather (Curatore)

Jet van Dam (Curatore)

Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2002

While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms.

• Curatore: J.H. Leather, Jet van Dam
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Collana: Educational Linguistics
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 226 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• EAN: 9781402010170

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