Modelling and assessing second language acquisition
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Modelling and assessing second language acquisition
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 18）
Multilingual Matters, c1985
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book forms an invaluable reference work for all teachers of second languages and researchers in the field of L2 acquisition. In the first section of the book, the authors of the various chapters discuss the contribution that modern research into L2 acquisition has to make in the curriculum development process. In particular, the book provides the reader with arguments for and against the various approaches to teaching. In the second part of the book, the contributors concern themselves with the various assessment tests and their validity, discussing them in particular on psycholinguistic grounds. They also discuss the political function of such assessment and how tests are used or abused in many different contexts around the world.
Table of Contents
PART I
1. Introduction: Kenneth Hyltenstam and Manfred Pienemann
2. Manfred Pienemann: Learnability and Syllabus Construction
3. Michael H. Long: A Role for Instruction in Second Language Acquisition: Task-Based Language Training
4. Patsy M. Lightbown: Can Language Acquisition be Altered by Instruction?
5. Kenneth Hyltenstam: L2 Learners' Variable Output and Language Teaching
6. Teresa Pica: Linguistic Simplicity and Learnability: Implications for Language Syllabus Design
7. Bjorn Hammarberg: Learnability and Learner Strategies in Second Language Syntax and Phonology
8. Howard Nicholas: Learner Variations and the Teachability Hypothesis
9. Michael C. Clyne: Medium or Object - Different Contexts of (School-based) Second Language Acquisition
PART II
10. David E. Ingram: Assessing Proficiency: An Overview on Some Aspects of Testing
11. Jan H. Hulstijn: Testing Second Language Proficiency with Direct Procedures: A Comment on Ingram
12. Harald Clahsen: Profiling Second Language Development: A Procedure for Assessing L2 Proficiency
13. Sharon Lapkin: Pedagogical Implications of Direct Second Language Testing: A Canadian Example
14. Lilian Fried: On the Validity of Second Language Tests
15. Jan H. Hulstijn: Second Language Proficiency: An Interactive Approach
16. Wilfried Stolting: Language Assessment as a Social Activity
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