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Title Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation:
current trends and future prospects.
Author(s) Alatis, James E., ed.
Straehle, Carolyn A., ed.
Local Call Num. P 53 .G39 1996
ISBN 978-0-87840-131-4
0-87840-131-8
Status Archived (Parka
Series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) series.
Pages 287 p.
Publishing Info Washington, DC Georgetown University Press. 1996
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Volume/Issue 1996
Subjects Linguistics--Congresses.
Language acquisition--Congresses.
Language variation--Congresses.
Language awareness in children--Congresses.
 
Description ill.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographies,

Contents:
Introduction to the volume / James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin and Brent Gallenberger
Dedication of Round Table Proceedings to Earl W. Stevick / James E. Alatis
Playing with linguistic problems: From Orwell to Plato and back again / David Crystal
Language development in two-way immersion: Trends and prospects / Donna Christian
Foreign-language teaching after the year 2000 / Reinhold Freudenstein
case against bilingual education / Stephen Krashen
Developing intercultural competence through foreign-language instruction: Challenges and choices / Ross Steele
Constructions of the learner in second language acquisition research / Michael Breen
Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA): Theoretical framework and instructional applications / Anna Uhl Chamot
effect of participation structure on second-language acquisition and retention of content / Mary Ann Christison
Grammaticality judgment tasks and second-language development / Ronald P. Leow
Second-language speech/pronunciation: Acquisition, instruction, standards, variation, and accent / Joan Morley
From communicative competence through bilingualism to metalinguistic development: Some theoretical pointers and research perspectives / Renzo Titone
Culture, variation, and languages of wider communication: The paradigm gap / Yamuna Kachru
Variation and the Mesolect in Jamaican Creole / Peter Patrick
Poisoning pidgins in the park: The study and status of Hawaiian Creole / Theodore Rodgers
problem of variation in SLA theory and research / Cristina Sanz
Endangered dialects: Sociolinguistic opportunity and obligation / Walt Wolfram
Beyond consciousness raising: Re-examining the role of linguistics in language teacher training / Andrea Tyler and Donna Lardiere.Donna Lardiere.