{"id":2027,"date":"2012-03-30T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T07:19:27","slug":"key-terms-in-second-language-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"Key terms in second language acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Key terms in second language acquisition<\/strong>. By <strong>Bill Van Patten<\/strong> and <strong>Alessandro G. Benati<\/strong>.\u00a0 New York: Continuum, 2010. Pp. viii, 184. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/key-terms-in-second-language-acquisition\/oclc\/489009193&amp;referer=brief_results\">9780826499158<\/a>. $24.95.<\/div>\n<p align=\"right\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=29502\">Richard W. Hallett<\/a><\/strong>, <em>Northeastern Illinois University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the introduction (1\u20138), the authors define second language acquisition (SLA) as \u2018a research field that focuses on learners and learning rather than teachers and teaching\u2019 (1). They then guide the reader through the historical development of SLA studies beginning with the 1970s and moving through the 2000s \u2018and beyond\u2019 (5). Following this condensed history, there is a short section on SLA and second language (L2) teaching. The introduction concludes with a short description of the book\u2019s contents.<\/p>\n<p>Following the introduction is a section titled \u2018Key issues in second language acquisition\u2019 (9\u201357). The nine questions the authors briefly answer include \u2018What is the initial state?\u2019 (11\u201315), \u2018Can L2 learners become native-like?\u2019 (16\u201321), \u2018Is there a critical period?\u2019 (22\u201326), \u2018What does development look like?\u2019 (27\u201331), \u2018What are the roles of explicit and implicit learning in SLA?\u2019 (32\u201335), \u2018What are the roles of input and output in SLA?\u2019 (36\u201341), \u2018What are individual differences and how do they affect acquisition?\u2019 (42\u201346), \u2018Does instruction make a difference?\u2019 (47\u201352), and \u2018What constraints are there on acquisition?\u2019 (53\u201357).<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the text is found in the subsequent section, \u2018Key terms in SLA\u2019 (58\u2013167). One hundred twenty-one entries for SLA terminology are provided in alphabetical order from <em>accessibility hierarchy\/noun phrase accessibility hierarchy<\/em> (58) to <em>working memory<\/em> (167). All of the terms are defined and exemplified; several include the names of key SLA researchers associated with their development. The book concludes with a bibliography (168\u201384), which lists many seminal works in SLA studies.<\/p>\n<p>As SLA is a field of linguistics prolific in terminology, this small book could be a very beneficial supplement in an SLA course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key terms in second language acquisition. By Bill Van Patten and Alessandro G. Benati.\u00a0 New York: Continuum, 2010. Pp. viii, 184. ISBN 9780826499158. $24.95. Reviewed by Richard W. Hallett, Northeastern Illinois University In the introduction (1\u20138), the authors define second language acquisition (SLA) as \u2018a research field that focuses on learners and learning rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}