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Ecology of Language Acquisition

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Leather

    1. Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Jet Dam

    1. Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 1)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Towards an Ecology of Language Acquisition

    • Jonathan Leather, Jet Van Dam
    Pages 1-29

  3. Critical Realism, Ecological Psychology, and Imagined Communities

    • Mark Fettes
    Pages 31-47

  4. A Tale of Two Computer Classrooms

    • Leo van Lier
    Pages 49-63

  5. From Joint Attention to Language Acquisition

    • Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito
    Pages 65-81

  6. Beyond Cognitive Determination

    • Jordan Zlatev
    Pages 83-106

  7. Language Socialization in Children’s Religious Education

    • A. Patricia Baquedano-López
    Pages 107-121

  8. An Integrational Linguistic View of Coming into Language

    • Michael Toolan
    Pages 123-139

  9. The Ecology of An Sla Community in a Computer-Mediated Environment

    • Wan Shun Eva Lam, Claire Kramsch
    Pages 141-158

  10. Robot Babies

    • David Powers
    Pages 159-181

  11. Borrowing Words

    • Gabriele Pallotti
    Pages 183-202

  12. Language Acquisition Behind the Scenes

    • Jet van Dam
    Pages 203-221

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 223-225
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About this book

While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jonathan Leather, Jet Dam

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecology of Language Acquisition

  • Editors: Jonathan Leather, Jet Dam

  • Series Title: Educational Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0341-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1017-0Published: 31 December 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6170-6Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0341-3Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-0292

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 226

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistics, general, Artificial Intelligence

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