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The testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process. Glenn Fulcher''s Testing Second Language Speaking is a state-of-the-art volume that considers the assessment of speaking from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives.The book offers the first systematic, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the testing of second language speaking. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it covers:Explanations of the process of test design Costing test design projects How to put the test into practice Evaluation of speaking tests Task

Second language acquisition --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching. --- Second language acquisition Study and teaching --- Study and teaching

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This chapter pulls together 40 years of interlanguage study in terms of three interlinked themes: (1) historic roots, emphasizing ongoing questions/issues that needed interlanguage to be asked; (2) interlanguage as a system in its own right, centering on evidence for the systematic nature of interlanguage; (3) a suggested future centering on creation of a deep interlanguage semantics guided by not only learning from, but contributing to, an exponentially-changing computational world. The chapter concludes with a "peroration" addressed to current students and younger colleagues stressing

Interlanguage (Language learning) --- Second language acquisition. --- Language acquisition --- Language and languages --- Languages, Mixed --- Second language learning --- Study and teaching --- Second language acquisition

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The book addresses the role of the L1 (first language)-based concept categorization in L2 (second language) vocabulary learning from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The author hypothesizes that the patterns of one's L1-based concept categorization will be present in his or her L2 vocabulary learning as well. The two characteristics pertaining to concept categorization under investigation are the prototypicality and the basic-level effects. The results show that the psychological salience of the basic-level and the prototypical concepts in one's L1-based conceptual system is related to bett

Categorization (Linguistics) --- Second language acquisition. --- Vocabulary. --- Linguistics --- Methodology.

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Interest in learning Chinese as an additional language has soared worldwide over the last ten years. Yet little is known about the learning process, and much less about what pedagogical strategies might facilitate or, otherwise, hinder it. This book thus aims to further understanding of the acquisition of Chinese as a foreign or second language. It brings together six independent studies which explore aspects of learning Chinese as an additional language across the domains of morphosyntax, pragmatics, cognitive capacity, interactional learning, and instructed learning via a variety of conceptual frameworks and methodological strategies. These studies, as well as the suggestions for future research, will be of great interest to second language acquisition researchers, graduate students and second language teachers of Chinese, as well as to curriculum developers and materials writers.

Chinese language --- Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- acquisition of Chinese as a foreign language. --- acquisition of Chinese as a second language. --- acquisition of Chinese as an L2. --- learning Chinese as a second language. --- learning Chinese as an L2. --- learning Chinese.

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Zum Altersfaktor im Deutschen als Zweitsprache existieren bislang nur wenige Untersuchungen. Das Buch gibt einen systematischen Forschungsüberblick über die vorhandenen Studien zur Verbstellung im Deutschen als Zweitsprache und vergleicht die Ergebnisse im Hinblick auf das Erwerbsalter der ProbandInnen. Auf der Basis dieser Forschungsergebnisse entwickelt die Autorin ihre eigene longitudinale Fallstudie, in der sie die Verbstellung bei zwei Halbschwestern mit Erstsprache Russisch in den ersten 18 Kontaktmonaten vergleicht. Die beiden Lernerinnen unterscheiden sich in erster Linie durch ihr Alter bei Erwerbsbeginn (acht vs. 14 Jahre), was einen direkten Vergleich des Erwerbsverlaufs und der Erwerbsgeschwindigkeit erlaubt. Die ungewöhnlich breite Datenbasis von über 10.000 vollständigen Sätzen erlaubt stichhaltige Aussagen zum Erwerb der Satzklammer, der Verb-Zweit-Stellung sowie der Verb-End-Stellung im Nebensatz. Der Grammatikerwerb vor und nach der Pubertät unterscheidet sich hauptsächlich in der Erwerbsgeschwindigkeit, wobei diese auch stark vom Lerngegenstand abhängt. DIE REIHE: DAZ-FORSCHUNG. DEUTSCH ALS ZWEITSPRACHE, MEHRSPRACHIGKEIT UND MIGRATION Die Reihe DaZ-Forschung stellt aktuelle Forschungen zum Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Erwerb sowie zu Bildungschancen im Kontext von Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit in Form von Monographien oder Sammelbänden vor.

German language --- Second language acquisition. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Verb --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Acquisition. --- Verb. --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Linguistics --- Philology --- German as a second language. --- age factor. --- verb position.