LINGUIST List 22.2640 Fri Jun 24 2011 Books: Lang Acquisition/Applied Ling/Cog Sci/Socioling: Atkinson (Ed) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Tara Thomas , Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Atkinson (Ed) Message 1: Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Atkinson (Ed) Date: 22-Jun-2011 From: Tara Thomas <tara.thomastaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Atkinson (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend Title: Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Published: 2011 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)                 http://www.routledge.com/ Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415549257/ Editor: Dwight Atkinson Electronic: ISBN: 9780203830932 Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 36.95 Electronic: ISBN: 9780203830932 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 22.99 Hardback: ISBN: 9780415549240 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 80.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9780415549240 Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 130.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9780415549257 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 22.99 Paperback: ISBN: 9780415549257 Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 36.95 Abstract: 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. 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