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Interlanguage Variation in Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Interlanguage Variation in Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective

By H.D. Adamson Copyright 2009
228 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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In this book H.D. Adamson reviews scholarship in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, comparing theories of variation in first and second-language speech, with special attention to the psychological underpinnings of variation theory. Interlanguage is what second language learners speak. It contains syntactic, morphological and phonological patterns that are not those of either the... Read more

Part I Variation in native speaker speech

1 Variation Theory

2 A study of variation in the native speaker speech community

3 Language Variation and Change

Part II Variation in nonnative speaker speech

4 The study of variation in interlanguage

5 The acquisition of English irregular past tense by Chinese-speaking children

Part III Variation in theoretical perspective

6 Psychological theories of linguistic variation

7 Cognitive linguistics

Part IV Variation in pedagogical perspective

8 Speaking style and monitoring

9 Teaching implications

Appendix: Variation and change in color semantics

Biography

H.D. Adamson is Professor of English at the University of Arizona, where he has served as the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. He has taught English as a second or foreign language in Ethiopia, Spain, and the United States.

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