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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leather, Jonathan
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dam, Jet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Educational linguistics ; 1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on the Authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Towards an ecology of language acquisition
  • 2. Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities: foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition
  • 3. A tale of two computer classrooms: the ecology of project-based learning
  • 4. From joint attention to language acquisition: how infants learn to control others' behavior
  • 5. Beyond cognitive determination: interactionism in the acquisition of spatial semantics
  • 6. Language socialization in children's religious education: the discursive and affective construction of identity
  • 7. An integrational linguistic view of coming into language: reflexivity and metonymy
  • 8. The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment
  • 9. Robot babies: what can they teach us about language acquisition?- 10. Borrowing words: appropriations in child second language discourse
  • 11. Language acquisition behind the scenes: collusion and play in educational settings
  • Index.