This volume presents the proceedIngs of the Twelfth Annual LIn guistics Symposium of the UniversIty of WisconsIn-Milwaukee held March 11-12, 1983 on the campus of UWM. It includes all papers that were given at the conference with the exception of Genevieve Escure and Glenn Gilbert's joint paper "Syntactic marking/unmarking phenomena in the creole continuum of Belize" which was not submitted for publication by the authors. Many of the papers appear in this volume in a revised form that is somewhat different from the oral version. We would like to thank the various departments and other units...

This book deals with the relationship between L2 theory and pedagogy. Grouped into five sections, the papers in this volume: consider questions about L2 theory and pedagogy at the macro-level, from the standpoint of the L2 setting; consider input in terms of factors which are internal to the learner; examine the question of external factors affecting the input, such as the issue of whether points of grammar can be explicitly taught; deal with questions of certain complex, linguistic behaviours and the various external and social variables that influence leaners; and discuss issues surrounding...

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown by the fact that the two disciplines have established themselves as areas of study not only distinct from each other, but also different from linguistic theory. This was not always the case, at least not in the United States. The anomaly results from the fact that this book deals with the relationship between L2 theory and pedagogy despite the conclusion that there is currently no widely-accepted theory of SLA.

Grouped into five sections, the...