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This book assembles 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of second language acquisition, probing a wide array of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Spanish, and American Sign Language. Although instruction per se is not the focus of this volume, the chapters are written with instructed learners in mind, and hence offer valuable insights for both second and foreign language researchers and practitioners.

Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Second language acquisition --- L2 acquisition. --- L2. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- foreign language learning. --- instruction. --- language teaching. --- second language learning.

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Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. Although the field has come a long way in understanding its general character, many issues still remain a conundrum, for example, why does transfer appear selective, and why does transfer never seem to go away for certain linguistic elements? Unlike most existing studies, which have focused on transfer at the surface form level, the present volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. The chapters in this collection conceptually explore and empirically investigate the relevance of Slobin’s Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis to adult second language acquisition, offering compelling and enlightening evidence of the fundamental nature of crosslinguistic influence in adult second language acquisition.

Second language acquisition. --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics. --- Language and culture. --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Linguistic usage --- Usage, Linguistic --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Usage. --- Psychological aspects --- Grammars --- L2 acquisition. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis. --- crosslinguistic influence. --- foreign language learning. --- linguistic relativity. --- second language learning. --- second language use. --- transfer.

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This book makes Relevance Theory (RT) relevant for L2 teachers and L2 teacher educators, in particular those working in foreign language teaching contexts. L2 classroom discourse data collected in seven research projects in the years 1984 – 2004 are reinterpreted in this book in the light of Relevance Theory - a theory of interpretation of the incoming messages. In this perspective the teachers’ input for instructed L2 learners facilitates shifts in the learners’ attention from meaning to form and vice versa. Such shifts of attention, according to Relevance Theory, change the level of expected optimal relevance of classroom communication, either focusing the students on form-oriented communication (accuracy), on meaning-oriented communication (fluency) or on meaning and form-oriented communication (fluency combined with accuracy). The latter is considered optimal for L2 learning/acquisition. Apart from the main focus on the relevance-theoretic interpretation of the teachers’ input, the book presents an overview of other theoretical approaches to the question of input for instructed L2 learners: the SLA approach, the communicative L2 teaching perspective, and the L2 classroom discourse approach.

Discourse analysis. --- Language and languages --- Second language acquisition --- Discourse analysis --- Language and education --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Study and teaching --- Language and education. --- Second language acquisition. --- Study and teaching. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Educational linguistics --- Second language learning --- Foreign language study --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Education --- Language acquisition --- Language schools --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- L2 acquisition. --- L2 classroom discourse. --- L2 learners. --- L2 learning. --- L2 teachers. --- Relevance Theory. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- classroom communication. --- classroom discourse. --- input in SLA.