Overview
- Explores the relationship between child language learning and adult second language learning
- Summarizes the various approaches to comprehension-based language instruction
- Traces the origin of the Comprehension Approach from its beginnings to the present day
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This book provides a critical analysis and account of the development of the Comprehension Approach as a method for language learning. The author draws on interrelated sub-fields - including linguistic theory, child language acquisition, and educational technology - to examine how a comprehension-based strategy could have pedagogical potential for adult second language learning. While second language pedagogy has to date been dominated by production models, this book takes another look at the Comprehension Approach as a possible alternative, presenting results from both child first language and adult second language contexts. It will be of interest to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics scholars, particularly those with an interest in second language teaching and learning.
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Book Title: Comprehension Strategies in the Acquiring of a Second Language
Authors: Harris Winitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52998-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52997-0Published: 09 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53000-6Published: 10 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52998-7Published: 08 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 374
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Education, general, Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Language Acquisition and Development, Child and School Psychology