Ecology of Language Acquisition /
While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cult...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2003.
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| Series: | Educational linguistics ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401703413 (electronic bk.) 9401703418 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1572-0292 ; |