Grammar Growth in Child Second Language German

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author(s)/editor(s)
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Preface
• Vorwort
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Index of charts
• Index of examples
• Index of pictures
• Index of tables
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Motivation for the study
• 1.2 Aims of the study
• 1.3 Theoretical framework and outline of the study
• 2 Functional features in language acquisition: The state of the art
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Theory development in language acquisition
• 2.2.1 Where language acquisition starts
• 2.2.2 How language acquisition develops
• 2.2.3 Types of language acquisition
• 2.2.4 Functional features in L2 acquisition: morphological variability in L2 grammar
• 2.2.5 Second language acquisition: variables and contexts
• 2.3 Articles in first and second language acquisition
• 2.3.1 Articles in German and English: a contrastive analysis
• 2.3.2 First language acquisition of the nominal system in German and English
• 2.3.3 Second language acquisition of the German nominal system
• 2.4 Summary
• 3 Empirical evidence
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Research questions and hypotheses
• 3.2.1 The development of nominal accuracy in child L2 German
• 3.2.2 The role of transfer
• 3.2.3 Task effects
• 3.3 Methodology
• 3.3.1 Immersion education
• 3.3.2 Data collection
• 3.3.2.1 Participants
• 3.3.2.2 Spontaneous production: story retelling
• 3.3.2.3 Spontaneous production: picture description
• 3.3.2.4 Spontaneous production: written retelling
• 3.3.2.5 Controlled production: cloze task
• 3.3.2.6 Controlled production: untimed oral grammaticality judgment task
• 3.3.2.7 Controlled production: untimed written grammaticality judgment task
• 3.3.2.8 Controlled production: timed grammaticality judgment task I
• 3.3.2.9 Controlled production: timed oral grammaticality judgment task II
• 3.3.3 Data analysis
• 3.3.3.1 Data transcription
• 3.3.3.2 Data coding (TAMS)
• 3.3.3.3 Statistical analyses
• 3.4 Summary
• 4 Findings
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Results
• 4.2.1 Measuring proficiency: SOPA results
• 4.2.2 Describing development: analyzing spontaneous production data
• 4.2.3 Investigating the development of nominal accuracy in child L2 German
• 4.2.4 Investigating the role of L1 transfer in the acquisition of L2 grammar
• 4.2.5 Investigating task effects in L2 production
• 4.3 Revisiting the research questions and hypotheses
• 4.4 Summary
• 5 Discussion
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Contributing to theory development in L2A research
• 5.3 The German determiner system in second language acquisition
• 5.3.1 Explaining morphological variability in L2A
• 5.4 Quality management in language learning
• 5.4.1 Input modifications
• 5.4.2 Task design, attention to speech and focus on form
• 5.5 Outlook and research desiderates
• 5.6 Summary
• 6 Conclusion
• 7 References
• 8 Appendix
• 8.1 German gender paradigms
• 8.2 Experiments and testing materials
• 8.3 Results and statistics