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Books: Language Acquisition: Leather, Van Dam (eds)
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Message 1: Ecology of Language Acquisition: Leather, Van Dam (eds)
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 05:17:47 +0000
From: renee.deboo <renee.deboowkap.nl>
Subject: Ecology of Language Acquisition: Leather, Van Dam (eds)
Title: Ecology of Language Acquisition
Series Title: Educational Linguistics
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
http://www.wkap.nl/, http://www.kluweronline.com
Book URL: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-1017-6
Editor: Jonathan Leather, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Editor: Jet Van Dam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hardback: ISBN: 1402010176, Pages: 250, Price: USD 88 / EUR 92 / GBP
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Abstract:
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.
Contents & Contributors
Notes on the Authors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Towards an ecology of language acquisition;
J. Leather, J. van Dam.
2. Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities:
foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition;
M. Fettes.
3. A tale of two computer classrooms: the ecology of project-based
learning;
L. van Lier.
4. From joint attention to language acquisition: how infants learn to
control others' behavior;
H. Kozima, A. Ito.
5. Beyond cognitive determination: interactionism in the acquisition
of spatial semantics;
J. Zlatev.
6. Language socialization in children's religious education: the
discursive and affective construction of identity;
A.P. Baquedano-L�pez.
7. An integrational linguistic view of coming into language:
reflexivity and metonymy;
M. Toolan.
8. The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment;
Wan Shun Eva Lam, C. Kramsch.
9. Robot babies: what can they teach us about language acquisition?
D. Powers.
10. Borrowing words: appropriations in child second language
discourse;
G. Pallotti.
11. Language acquisition behind the scenes: collusion and play in
educational settings;
J. van Dam.
Index.
Lingfield(s): Language Acquisition
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)