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Frequency effects in instructed second language acquisition / by Karin Madlener.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of cognitive linguisticsPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110405538
  • 3110405539
  • 9783110405545
  • 3110405547
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frequency effects in instructed second language acquisition.DDC classification:
  • 418.0071 23
LOC classification:
  • P53.7 .M26 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations / List of tables -- List of figures -- Part I: Do all roads lead to Rome? Ways to construct a second language -- 1. Cognitive Linguistics meets the second language classroom -- Part II: A usage-based approach to instructed second language acquisition -- 2. Input, input processing, and interlanguage development -- 3. A constructionist view of second language acquisition -- 4. A usage-based view of input optimization: Beyond input floods -- Part III: Frequency effects in incidental learning from structured input floods: A classroom study -- 5. Evaluating frequency effects in the classroom: Study design -- 6. Optimizing variation or: Can less be more? -- 7. Optimizing repetition or: Do outstanding central exemplars help? -- Part IV: Summary and discussion -- 8. Input floods revisited -- References -- Subject index -- Appendix A.
Summary: Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations / List of tables -- List of figures -- Part I: Do all roads lead to Rome? Ways to construct a second language -- 1. Cognitive Linguistics meets the second language classroom -- Part II: A usage-based approach to instructed second language acquisition -- 2. Input, input processing, and interlanguage development -- 3. A constructionist view of second language acquisition -- 4. A usage-based view of input optimization: Beyond input floods -- Part III: Frequency effects in incidental learning from structured input floods: A classroom study -- 5. Evaluating frequency effects in the classroom: Study design -- 6. Optimizing variation or: Can less be more? -- 7. Optimizing repetition or: Do outstanding central exemplars help? -- Part IV: Summary and discussion -- 8. Input floods revisited -- References -- Subject index -- Appendix A.

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