The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities

ISBN-13: 9780415882194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 312 str.

Lourdes Ortega

Opis

Researchers and educators routinely call for longitudinal research on language learning and teaching. The present volume explores the connection between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities, two under-researched areas, and proposes an agenda for future research. Five chapters probe theoretical and methodological reflections about the longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities, followed by eight chapters that report on empirical longitudinal investigations spanning descriptive, quasi-experimental, qualitative, and quantitative longitudinal methodologies. In addition, the co-editors offer a detailed introduction to the volume and a coda chapter in which they explore what it would take to design systematic research programs for the longitudinal investigation of advanced L2 capacities. The scholars in this volume collectively make the argument that second language acquisition research will be the richer, theoretically and empirically, if a trajectory toward advancedness is part of its conceptualization right from the beginning and, in reverse, that advancedness is a particularly interesting acquisitional level at which to probe contemporary theories associated with the longitudinal study of language development. Acknowledging that advancedness is increasingly important in our multicultural societies and globalized world, the central question explored in the present collection is: How does learning over time evolve toward advanced capacities in a second language?

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1. The longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities: An introduction

Lourdes Ortega & Heidi Byrnes

Part I- Theoretical and methodological explorations

Chapter 2. Developing qualitative longitudinal case studies of advanced language learners

Linda Harklau

Chapter 3. Systemic Functional Linguistic explorations into the longitudinal study of the advanced capacities: The case of Spanish heritage language learners

Mariana Achugar & M. Cecilia Colombi

Chapter 4. Investigating learner language development with electronic longitudinal corpora: Theoretical and methodological issues

Florence Myles

Chapter 5. Planning, collecting, exploring, and archiving longitudinal L2 data: Experiences from the P-MoLL Project

Romuald Skiba, Norbert Dittmar, & Jana Bressem

Chapter 6. Issues in the quantitative longitudinal measurement of second language progress in the study abroad context

Jonathan Rees & John Klapper

Part II- Empirical investigations

Chapter 7. Advancedness and the development of relativization in L2 German: A curriculum-based study

Heidi Byrnes & Castle Sinicrope

Chapter 8. Advanced learners’ development of systematic vocabulary knowledge: Learning German vocabulary with inseparable prefixes

Katherine A. Sprang

Chapter 9. Teaching grammatical meaning to advanced learners: A cognitive-semantic perspective

Olga Liamkina

Chapter 10. L1-L2 Translation vs. No Translation: A longitudinal study of Focus-on-FormS within a meaning-focused curriculum

Marie Källkvist

Chapter 11. Longitudinal gain of higher-order inferential abilities in L2 English: Accuracy, speed, and conventionality

Naoko Taguchi

Chapter 12. Histories of engagement and sociolinguistic awareness in study abroad: Colloquial French

Celeste Kinginger & Géraldine Blattner

Chapter 13. Acquiring oral language skills over the course of a high school year abroad: What’s in it for absolute beginners?

Allison J. Spenader

Chapter 14. An ethnographic longitudinal approach to the development of assessment for advanced competencies of medical interpreters

Claudia V. Angelelli

Coda

Chapter 15. Theorizing advancedness, setting up the longitudinal research agenda

Lourdes Ortega & Heidi Byrnes