The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities (Second Language Acquisition Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues)

824 Pages·2008·2.59 MB·English

by  Lourdes Ortega

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Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2
Capacities Second Language Acquisition
title:
Research. Monographs on Theoretical
Issues
author: Ortega, Lourdes.; Byrnes, Heidi.
publisher: Taylor & Francis Routledge
isbn10 | asin: 0805861734
print isbn13: 9780805861730
ebook isbn13: 9780203871652
language: English
Language and languages--Study and
subject
teaching, Second language acquisition.
publication date: 2008
lcc: P51.L598 2008eb
ddc: 418.0071
Language and languages--Study and
subject:
teaching, Second language acquisition.
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The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities
The present edited volume explores the connection between longitudinal
study and advanced language capacities, two under-researched areas in
investigations of language learning and teaching, and proposes an
agenda for future research. Five chapters probe theoretical and
methodological reflections about the longitudinal study of advanced L2
capacities, followed by eight chapters that report on empirical longitudinal
investigations spanning descriptive, quasi-experimental, qualitative, and
quantitative longitudinal methodologies. In addition, the co-editors offer a
detailed introduction to the volume and a coda chapter in which they
explore what it would take to design systematic research programs for
the longitudinal investigation of advanced L2 capacities. Acknowledging
that advancedness is increasingly important in our multicultural societies
and globalized world, the diverse contributions revolve around two central
questions: How does learning over time evolve toward advanced
capacities in a second language? What tools and constructs can enable
researchers to illuminate change toward advancedness longitudinally?
The volume will be of great interest to scholars and students in the field
of applied linguistics and in the related fields of foreign language
education, second language acquisition, and educational linguistics.
Lourdes Ortega is Associate Professor of Second Language Studies at
the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests include second
language acquisition, second language writing, and research methods.
Recent publications are Synthesizing Research on Language Learning
and Teaching (co-edited with John Norris, Benjamins) and Understanding
Second Language Acquisition (Arnold).
Heidi Byrnes is George M. Roth Distinguished Professor of German at
Georgetown University. Her research focus is the acquisition of L2
academic literacy by adult instructed learners. Recent publications
include Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities:
Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment (co-edited with Heather
Weger-Guntharp and Katherine A. Sprang, Georgetown University
Press); and Advanced Language Learning: The Contribution of Halliday
and Vygotsky (Continuum).
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Second language acquisition research: theoretical and
methodological issues
Edited by Susan M. Gass and Alison Mackey
Monographs on Theoretical Issues
Schachter/Gass Second Language Classroom Research: Issues and
Opportunities (1996) Birdsong Second Language Acquisition and the
Critical Period Hypothesis (1999) Ohta Second Language Acquisition
Processes in the Classroom: Learning Japanese (2001) Major Foreign
Accent: Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Second Language Phonology (2001)
VanPatten Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary
(2003) VanPatten/Williams/Rott/Overstreet Form–Meaning
Connections in Second Language Acquisition (2004) Bardovi-
Harlig/Hartford Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk
(2005) Dörnyei The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual
Differences in Second Language Acquisition (2005) Long Problems in
SLA (2007)
VanPatten/Williams Theories in Second Language Acquisition (2007)
Ortega/Byrnes The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities
(2008) Liceras/Zobl/Goodluck The Role of Formal Features in Second
Language Acquisition (2008) Monographs on Research Methodology
Tarone/Gass/Cohen Research Methodology in Second Language
Acquisition (1994) Yule Referential Communication Tasks (1997)
Gass/Mackey Stimulated Recall Methodology in Second Language
Research (2000) Markee Conversation Analysis (2000)
Dörnyei Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction,
Administration, and Processing (2002) Gass/Mackey, Data Elicitation for
Second and Foreign Language Research (2007) Duff Case Study
Research in Applied Linguistics (2008)
Of Related Interest
Gass Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner (1997)
Gass/Sorace/Selinker Second Language Learning Data Analysis,
Second Edition (1998) Gass/Selinker Second Language Acquisition: An
Introductory Course, Third Edition (2008) Mackey/Gass Second
Language Research: Methodology and Design (2005)
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The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2
Capacities
Edited by
Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes
NEW YORK AND LONDON
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The longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities / [edited] by Lourdes
Ortega
and Heidi Byrnes.
p. cm.
Language and languages—Study and teaching. 2. Second language
acquisition. I. Ortega, Lourdes. II. Byrnes, Heidi.
P51.L598 2008
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Contents

List of illustrations vii

List of contributors xv

Introduction 1

1 The longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities: An introduction 3
LOURDES ORTEGA AND HEIDI BYRNES

PART I Theoretical and methodological explorations 21

2 Developing qualitative longitudinal case studies of advanced language 23
learners

LINDA HARKLAU
3 Systemic Functional Linguistic explorations into the longitudinal study 36
of advanced capacities: The case of Spanish heritage language learners

MARIANA ACHUGAR AND M. CECILIA COLOMBI
4 Investigating learner language development with electronic 58
longitudinal corpora: Theoretical and methodological issues

FLORENCE MYLES
5 Planning, collecting, exploring, and archiving longitudinal L2 data: 73
Experiences from the P-MoLL project

ROMUALD SKIBA, NORBERT DITTMAR, AND JANA BRESSEM
6 Issues in the quantitative longitudinal measurement of second language 89
progress in the study abroad context

JONATHAN REES AND JOHN KLAPPER
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PART II Empirical investigations
107

7 Advancedness and the development of relativization in L2 German:
A curriculum-based longitudinal study 109

HEIDI BYRNES AND CASTLE SINICROPE
8 Advanced learners’ development of systematic vocabulary
knowledge: Learning German vocabulary with inseparable prefixes 139

KATHERINE A. SPRANG
9 Teaching grammatical meaning to advanced learners: A cognitive-
semantic perspective 163

OLGA LIAMKINA
10 L1–L2 translation versus no translation: A longitudinal study of
focus-on-formS within a meaning-focused curriculum 182

MARIE KÄLLKVIST
11 Longitudinal gain of higher-order inferential abilities in L2 English:
Accuracy, speed, and conventionality 203

NAOKO TAGUCHI
12 Histories of engagement and sociolinguistic awareness in study
abroad: Colloquial French 223

CELESTE KINGINGER AND GÉRALDINE BLATTNER
13 Acquiring oral language skills over the course of a high school year
abroad: What’s in it for absolute beginners? 247

ALLISON J. SPENADER
14 An ethnographic longitudinal approach to the development of
assessment for advanced competencies of medical interpreters 264

CLAUDIA V. ANGELELLI