The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford

ISBN 10: 1556195192 / ISBN 13: 9781556195198

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556195192
• ISBN 13: 9781556195198
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in linguistics and/or first-language acquisition like Haj Ross and Harald Clahsen, and from relative newcomers to the field like India Plough and Jean-Marc Dewaele. The topics covered range from the role of universals at various levels of second-language (L2) knowledge; the way that linguistic knowledge is represented by L2 learners; the changing nature of linguistic theory itself; and the definition of usage phenomena like style shifting and code switching. The introduction to The Current State of Interlanguage gives a concise yet detailed overview of research in the field over the past 10 years, and focuses on the present growing concensus on a number of issues that were at one point highly controversial.