Current Trends in European Second title: Language Acquisition Research Multilingual Matters (Series) ; 51 author: Dechert, Hans W. publisher: Multilingual Matters isbn10 | asin: 185359024X print isbn13: 9781853590245 ebook isbn13: 9780585225845 language: English Second language acquisition--Congresses, subject Language and languages--Study and teaching--Europe--Congresses. publication date: 1990 lcc: P118.2.C87 1990eb ddc: 428/.007 Second language acquisition--Congresses, subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching--Europe--Congresses. Page i Current Trends in European Second Language Acquisition Research Page ii Multilingual Matters Age in Second Language Acquisition BIRGIT HARLEY Bilingualism and the Individual A. HOLMEN, E. HANSEN, J. GIMBEL and J. JøRGENSEN (eds) Bilingualism in Society and School J. JøRGENSEN, E. HANSEN, A. HOLMEN and J. GIMBEL (eds) Bilingualism and Special Education JIM CUMMINS Bilingualism: Basic Principles HUGO BAETENS BEARDSMORE Code-Mixing and Code Choice JOHN GIBBONS Cultural Studies in Foreign Language Education MICHAEL BYRAM The Education of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in the OECD Countries STACY CHURCHILL Introspection in Second Language Research C. FAERCH and G. KASPER (eds) Key Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education COLIN BAKER Language Acquisition: The Age Factor D. M. SINGLETON Language in a Black Community VIV EDWARDS Language and Education in Multilingual Settings BERNARD SPOLSKY (ed.) Learner Language and Language Learning C. FAERCH, K. HAASTRUP and R. PHILLIPSON Methods in Dialectology ALAN R. THOMAS (ed.) Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle T. SKUTNABB-KANGAS and J. CUMMINS (eds) Minority Education and Ethnic Survival MICHAEL BYRAM Modelling and Assessing Second Language Acquisition K. HYLTENSTAM and M. PIENEMANN (eds) Oral Language Across the Curriculum DAVID CORSON Raising Children Bilingually: The Pre-School Years LENORE ARNBERG The Role of the First Language in Second Language Learning HÅKAN RINGBOM Schooling in a Plural Canada JOHN R. MALLEA Variation in Second Language Acquisition SUSAN GASS, CAROLYN MADDEN, DENNIS PRESTON and LARRY SELINKER (eds) Please contact us for the latest book information: Multilingual Matters, Bank House, 8a Hill Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7HH, England. Page iii MULTILINGUAL MATTERS 51 Series Editor: Derrick Sharp Current Trends in European Second Language Acquisition Research Edited by Hans W. Dechert MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD Clevedon Philadelphia Page iv Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Current trends in European second language acquisition research / edited by Hans W. Dechert. p. cm.(Multilingual matters : 51) Papers originating from a workshop held July 27-28 1985 at Georgetown University in conjunction with the 1985 LSA/TESOL Summer Institute. Includes bibliographies and indexes. 1. Second language acquisitionCongresses. 2. Language and languagesStudy and teachingEuropeCongresses. I. Dechert, Hans W. (Hans-Wilhelm) II. LSA/TESOL Institute (1985 : Georgetown University) III. Linguistic Society of America. IV. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. V. Series: Multilingual matters (Series) : 51. P118.2.C87 1989 428'.007dc19 88-25207 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Current trends in European second language acquisition research(Multilingual matters; 51) 1. Foreign language skills. Acquisition. Research. Research. I. Dechert, Hans W. 401'.9 ISBN 1-85359-024X ISBN 1-85359-023-1 Pbk Multilingual Matters Ltd Bank House, 8a Hill Road & 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101 Clevedon, Avon BS21 7HH Bristol, PA 19007 England U.S.A. Copyright © 1990 Hans W. Dechert and the authors of individual chapters All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Index compiled by Meg Davies (Society of Indexers) Typeset by PhotoGraphics, Honiton, Devon Printed and bound in Great Britain by WBC Print, Bristol Page v CONTENTS Preface vii Introduction 1 Part One: Theory and Methodology in Second Language Acquisition Research 1 13 Nouns and Verbs in the Learner's Lexicon Rainer Dietrich 2 23 Typological Markedness as a Research Tool in the Study of Second Language Acquisition Kenneth Hyltenstam 3 37 Foreign Language Acquisition and the Development of Automaticity Jaakko Lehtonen 4 51 Competing Plans in Second Language Processing Hans W. Dechert Part Two: Children's First and Second Language Acquisition 5 67 Early Bilingual Reading: Retrospects and Prospects Renzo Titone 6 83