Essential Topics in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism: Studies in Honor of David Singleton

By Mirosław Pawlak

Book Overview

Can you Learn to Love Grammar and so Make it Grow? On the Role of Affect in L2 Development.- It's All in the Eyes: How Language Dominance, Salience, and Context Affect Eye Movements During Idiomatic Language Processing.- The Critical Period Hypothesis for Second Language Acquisition: Tailoring the Coat of Many Colors.- The Association Between Aptitude Components and Language Skills in Young Learners.- Cross-Linguistic Influence in L2 Writing: The Role of Short-Term Memory.- Another Look at Temporal Variation in Language Learning Motivation: Results of a Study.- Testing Linguistic Awareness Among Learners of Hungarian.- Dyslexia in the European EFL Teacher Training Context.- The Concept of Affordances in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism.- On Multilingual Awareness or Why the Multilingual Learner is a Specific Language Learner.- Face to Face with One's Thoughts: On Thinking Multilingually.- Crosslinguistic Influence in Instructed L3 Child Phonological Acquisition.- Crosslinguistic Influence and Bilingual Children's Weaker Language.- Learners' Reflections on Their Narratives on L2 and L3 Learning.- Exploring the Impact of the Proficiency and Typology Factors: Two Cases of Multilingual Learners' L3 Learning.- Standard Punctuation and the Punctuation of the Street.- The Homunculus in the Multilingual Brain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319346598
• ISBN13: 9783319346595
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"