Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Second Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in Honor of Waldemar Marton

Book Overview

Foreign language didactics encounters cognitive science.- Only connect: The interface debate in second language acquisition.- Teaching English as an International Language: Problems and research Questions.- Metaphor in language education.- Dual focus on language and content as an issue in L2/FL reading development.- Inhibitory control, working memory and L2 interaction.- Second language learners' processing of idiomatic expressions: Does compositionality matter?.- The relationship between impulsive/reflective cognitive style and success in grammar acquisition in English as a foreign language.- The appeal of the teaching method in the postmethod era: The motivation of adult EFL course participants.- The folk linguistics of language teaching and learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642431798
• ISBN13: 9783642431791
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"