Input Matters in SLA

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Thorsten Piske, Martha Young-Scholten
Multilingual Matters, 2009 - 312 páginas
This volume bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together well-known and new authors to discuss a topic of mutual interest to second language researchers and teachers alike: input. Reader-friendly chapters offer a range of existing and new perspectives on input in morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology.
 

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Introduction
1
Matters of Input
17
Input Frequency and the Acquisition of the Progressive
29
Processing Matters in Input Enhancement
47
Input and Second Language Development from
62
The Comprehension Hypothesis Extended
81
Output Matters
95
Learner Attitudes Towards Comprehensionbased
116
Give Input a Chance
175
Orthographic Input and Second Language Phonology
191
Second Language Speech Learning with Diverse Inputs
207
Contrastive
219
Developing Nonnative Pronunciation in Immersion Settings
238
Glossary
257
References
271
Index
303

The Hidden Paradox of Foreign Language Instruction
137
Quantity
159

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Sobre el autor (2009)

Thorsten Piske is affiliated with the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. His research focuses on first and second language acquisition and on bilingual education. He is well known for joint work with James E. Flege on factors affecting degree of foreign accent in a second language. He has done research on the production and perception of first and second language speech sounds and on the effectiveness of bilingual programs in kindergartens and primary schools.
Currently at Newcastle University in England, Martha Young-Scholten works on morpho-syntax and phonology. She is well known for joint work with Anne Vainikka on uninstructed adults' development of morpho-syntax in German. Prosodic structure, orthographic input and the phonological awareness of low-literate immigrant adults are some of the lines of research she pursues in the second language acquisition of phonology.

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