A comprehensive, current review of the research and approaches to advanced proficiency in second language acquisition
The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisitionoffers an overview of the most recent and scientific-based research concerning higher proficiency in second language acquisition (SLA). With contributions from an international team of experts in the field, theHandbook presents several theoretical approaches to SLA and offers an examination of advanced proficiency from the viewpoint of various contexts and dimensions of second language performance. The authors also review linguistic phenomena among advanced learners through the lens of phonology and grammar development.
Comprehensive in scope, this book provides an overview of advanced proficiency grounded in socially-relevant domains of second language acquisition including discourse, reading, genre-based writing, and pragmatic competence. The authoritative volume brings together the theoretical accounts of advanced language use combined with solid empirical research.
Includes contributions from an international collection of noted scholars in the field of second language acquisitionOffers a variety of theoretical approaches to SLAContains information on the most recent empirical research that contributes to an understanding of SLADescribes performance phenomena according to multiple approaches to SLA
Written for scholars, students and linguists,The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive text that offers the most recent developments in the study of advanced proficiency in the acquisition of a second language.
Paul A. Malovrh is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, University of South Carolina, USA. His recent work emphasizes advanced-level language proficiency and explores its relationship with globalization and curricular design, as well as the effect of different instructional approaches on foreign-language processing, learning, and retention.
Alessandro G. Benati is Director of CAES at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is known for his work in second language acquisition and second language teaching. He has published ground-breaking research on the pedagogical framework called Processing Instruction. He is co-editor of a new online series for Cambridge University Press, a member of the REF Panel 2021, and Honorary Professor at York St John University.
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Introduction 1Paul A. Malovrh and Alessandro G. Benati
Part I Advanced L2 Capacity: Orientations on Acquisition 7
2 Systemic Functional Linguistics and Advanced Second Language Proficiency 9Marianna RyshinaPankova
3 Psycholinguistic Approaches and Advanced Proficiency 30Leah Roberts
4 What Does Critical Period Research Reveal about Advanced L2 Proficiency? 51Michael H. Long, Gisela Granena, and Fátima Montero
5 Generative Approaches to Second Language (L2) Acquisition and Advanced L2 Proficiency 72Jason Rothman, Fatih Bayram, Tanja Kupisch, Terje Lohndal, and Marit Westergaard
6 InteractionDriven L2 Learning: Advanced Learners 94Nicole Ziegler and Lara Bryfonski
7 Sociocultural Theory: Mediating Learners toward Advanced Proficiency 114Matthew E. Poehner
Part II Advanced Proficiency and Performance: Multiple Dimensions and Contexts 131
8 AdvancedLevel Grammatical Development in Instructed SLA 133Heidi Byrnes
9 Individual Differences in Advanced Proficiency 157Paula Winke and Susan M. Gass
10 The Prior Language Experience of Heritage Bilinguals 179Cristina Sanz and Julio Torres
11 Meeting the Demands of Globalization: One Goal of ISLA Research 199Paul A. Malovrh and Nina Moreno
12 Task Condition Effects on AdvancedLevel Foreign Language Performance 219Gavin Bui, Peter Skehan, and Zhan Wang
Part III Advanced Phonology 239
13 AdvancedLevel L2 Phonology 241John Archibald
14 Markedness and Advanced Development 264Fred R. Eckman
15 Advanced Second Language Segmental and Suprasegmental Acquisition 282Kazuya Saito
16 Connected Speech in AdvancedLevel Phonology 304Burcu GokgozKurt and D. Eric Holt
17 Voice Onset Time in Advanced SLA 323Alfonso MoralesFront
Part IV Advanced Grammar 341
18 AdvancedLevel Mood Distinction 343Aarnes Gudmestad
19 Advanced Conceptualizations of Tense and Aspect in L2 Acquisition 361M. Rafael Salaberry
20 Inflectional Morphology 381Roumyana Slabakova
21 Advanced Lexical Development 401Stuart A. Webb
22 Word Order and Information Structure in Advanced SLA 419Cristobal Lozano and Marcus Callies
23 AdvancedLevel Semantics 442Tania Ionin
Part V AdvancedLevel Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociocultural Literacy 461
24 AdvancedLevel Pragmatics in Instructed SLA 463Feng Xiao
25 Advanced Reading Proficiency in Collegiate Foreign Language Learners 483Keiko Koda and Sihui Echo Ke
26 Advanced Second Language Pragmatic Competence 505Naoko Taguchi
27 Advanced Rhetoric and Socially Situated Writing 527Gregg Fields and Paul Kei Matsuda
28 Variable Structures and Sociolinguistic Variation 547Kimberly L. Geeslin
Index 566
