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Vivian Cook: Publications

On-line texts of some difficult to access items are available in Obscure Writings
I. Books
Active Intonation, Longman, 1968. Cuban edition ca 1970
Realistic English, (with B. Abbs & M. Underwood), 3 vols., O.U.P., 1968-1970; new editions 1978

English Topics, O.U.P., 1975
Young Children and Language, Edward Arnold, 1979

Using Intonation, Longman, 1979
People and Places, Pergamon, 1980; Japanese edition with A. Hagiwara, Kihara Shoten, 1985; Polish edition, Polish Scientific Publishers, 1987
Authentic English for Reading, (with B. Abbs & M. Underwood), 3 vols, O.U.P., 1980-82
Meeting People, Pergamon, 1982; Polish edition, Polish Scientific Publishers, 1987
Living with People, Pergamon, 1983; Polish edition, Polish Scientific Publishers, 1987
Experimental Approaches to Second Language Learning, (editor and contributor), Pergamon, 1986

Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction, Blackwell, 1988. Translated into Japanese (1990), Italian (1990) and Korean (1992). Third edition with joint author M. Newson, 2007. Translated into Italian (1996). Chinese edition 2000. New edition in press
Second Language Learning and Language Teaching, Edward Arnold, 1991. Translated into Japanese 1993. Chinese edition 2000. Third edition 2001.

Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Macmillan, 1993. Chinese edition 2000

 

Inside Language, Edward Arnold, 1997 (out of print)
Portraits of the L2 User, (editor and contributor) Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 2002

Effects of the Second Language on the First, (editor and contributor) Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 2003
The English Writing System, Edward Arnold, 2004
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary, Profile, 2004; British paperback 2005; American edition Touchstone, 2005

Second Language Writing Systems, Multilingual Matters, 2005 edited with Benedetta Bassetti

II. Articles

'Some types of oral structure drill', Language Learning, XVIII, 1968. Reprinted in Allen, H., & Campbell, R. (eds.), Teaching English as a Foreign Language, McGraw Hill, 1972

'The analogy between first and second language learning', IRAL, VII/3, 207-216, 1969. Reprinted in R. Lugton (ed.), Towards a Cognitive Approach to Second Language Acquisition, CCD, 1971

'Freedom and control in language teaching materials', in R.W. Rutherford (ed.), BAAL Seminar Papers: Problems in the preparation of foreign language teaching materials, 1970

'The creative use of language', AudioVisual Language Journal, 8, 1970

'How children learn language', New Society, 442, 18.3.1971

'Which came first, the language or the concept?', Multiracial School, 1, 2, 1972

'The comparison of language development in native children and foreign adults,' IRAL, XI/1, 13-28, 1973

'Is explanatory adequacy adequate?', Linguistics, 133, 1974

'Strategies in the comprehension of relative clauses', Language and Speech, 18, 204-212, 1975

'A note on indirect objects', J. Child Language, 3, 435-438, 1976

'Language processes and language teaching', Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, III, 1, 19-27, 1977

'Using recorded speech in the classroom,' Zeilsprache Englisch, 1, 1977

'Cognitive processes in second language learning', IRAL, XV/1, 73-90, 1977. Reprinted in D. Nehls (ed.), Studies in Language Acquisition, Julius Groos, 1980

'Second language learning: a psycholinguistic perspective', Linguistics and Language Teaching: Abstracts, 1978. Reprinted in V. Kinsella (ed.), Surveys I, 1982

'Some ways of organising language', AudioVisual Language Journal, 16, 2, 1978

'The English are only human', English Language Teaching Journal, XXXIII, 3, 163-167, 1979

'Aspects of memory in secondary school language learners', Interlanguage Studies Bulletin – Utrecht, 4, 2, 161-172, 1979

'The relationship of first and second language learning', (with J. Long & S. McDonough), in G.E. Perren (ed.), The Mother Tongue and Other Languages in Education, CILTR, 1979

'We have ways of making you talk', EFL Bulletin, No 4, 4-6, 1979

'Some neglected aspects of intonation', in H. Dechert & M. Raupach (eds.), Temporal Variables in Speech, Mouton, 1980

'Two fables for our time: the Fox and the Hen and the Miller's Sons', Dunsford Papers in ELT Course Design, British Council, 1981

'Some uses for second language learning research', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 379, 251-258, 1981

'Teaching vocabulary', Modern English Teacher, 8, 3, 1981

'Using authentic materials in the classroom,' Modern English Teacher, 9, 2, 1981

'Second language acquisition from an interactionist viewpoint', Interlanguage Studies Bulletin – Utrecht, 6, 93-111, 1981

'What is your learning theory?', Modern English Teacher, 10, 1, 1982

'Structure drills and the language learner', Canadian Modern Language Review, 38, 1982

'Interaction sequences in L2 learning and teaching', in G. Nickel & D. Nehls (eds.), Error Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics and Second Language Learning, Julius Groos, 1982

'Kategorisierung und Fremdsprachenerwerb', Gegenwartige Probleme and Aufgaben der Fremdsprachen-psychologie, Karl Marx University, Leipzig, 1982

'Structure drills on a ZX 81: Part I', Modern English Teacher, 11, 1, 1983

'Structure drills on a ZX 81: Part II', Modern English Teacher, 11, 2, 1983

'Some assumptions in the design of courses', University of Trier Papers, Series B, paper no 94, 1983, 24-27 Reproduced L.A.U.T. (Linguistic Agency University of Trier

'What should language teaching be about?', English Language Teaching Journal, 37, 3, 1983

'Making up characters for roleplay', World Language English, 2, 4, 249-250, 1983

'Communication games with a microcomputer', World Language English, 3, 2, 1984

'Chomsky's Universal Grammar and second language learning', Applied Linguistics, 6, 1-8, 1985

'Bridging the gap between computers and the classroom', ELT Documents, 122, 13-25, 1985

'Language functions, social factors, and second language teaching', IRAL, 13, 3, 177-196, 1985

'Natural language processing by computer and language teaching', (with D. Fass), System, 14/2, 163-170, 1986

'The basis for an experimental approach to second language learning', in V.J. Cook (ed.), 1986, 3-22

'Experimental approaches applied to two areas of second language learning research: age and listening-based teaching methods', in V.J. Cook (ed.) 1986, 23-37

'Do second language learners have a cognitive deficit?', in V.J. Cook (ed.) (1986), 73-80

'Natural language processing as interface between CALL and computing,' Fremdsprachen und Hochschule, AKS, 20, 17-26, 1987

'"How to" exercises', ETAS (English Teachers Association, Switzerland), 4/4, 59-60, 1987

'Designing CALL programs for communicative teaching,' English Language Teaching Journal, 42, 4, 262-271, 1988

'Cognitive processing and second language learning', Polyglot, 9, fiche 2, 1988

'Designing a BASIC parser for CALL', CALICO Journal, September 1988

'Language learners' extrapolation of word order in phrases of Micro-Artificial Languages,' Language Learning, 38, 4, 497-529, 1988

'Technique analysis: a tool for the teacher', Modern English Teacher, 16, 1, 29-32, 1988

'Einige Bemerkungen zum Verhaltnis von Zweitsprachen-Lernforschung und Sprachunterricht' (Second language learning research and language teaching), Deutsch Als Fremdsprache, 26, 20-24, 1989

'The relevance of grammar to the applied linguistics of language teaching', Trinity College Dublin Occasional Papers, 22, 1989

'Reciprocal language teaching: another alternative', Modern English Teacher, 16, 3/4, 48-53, 1989

'Universal Grammar theory and the classroom', System, 17, 2, 169-181, 1989

'Bringing language into CALL', in I. Kecskes & L. Agocs (eds.), New Tendencies in Computer Assisted Language Learning, Kossuth University, 39-42, 1989

'Linguists' grammars and the language teacher', in B. O'Meadhra, B. Richardson, & C. O'Culleanain (eds.), Languages in the 1990s: Proceedings of the Third National Modern Language Convention, MLTA/Dublin City University, 29-39, 1989

'The I-language Approach and Classroom Observation', English Language Teaching Documents, 133, 71-80, 1990

'Timed comprehension of binding in advanced learners of English', Language Learning, 40, 4, 557-599, 1990

'Observational evidence and the UG theory of language acquisition', in I. Roca (ed.), Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Foris, 1990

'The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument and multi-competence', Second Language Research, 7, 2, 103-117, 1991

'The development of multi-competence', Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek, Thessaloniki, March 27-29, 1991, 394-404

'Relating Second Language Acquisition Research to Language Teaching', Die Neueren Sprachen, 1992

'The second language learning of grammar and language teaching', in D. Hill (ed.), Proceedings of the National Conference of Teachers of English 1992, British Council, Milan

'Evidence for multi-competence', Language Learning, 42, 4, 557-591, 1992

'Wholistic multi-competence – jeu d'esprit or paradigm shift?', Current Issues in European Second Language Acquisition Research, ed. B. Kettemann, Narr, 2-8, 1993

‘Learning and teaching: five suggestions’, GRETA, 1, 1, 5-6

'Universal Grammar and the learning and teaching of second languages', in T. Odlin (ed.), Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar, CUP, 1994, 25-48

'The metaphor of access to Universal Grammar', in N. Ellis (ed.), Implicit Learning and Language, Academic Press, 1994, 477-502

‘Timed grammaticality judgements of the head parameter in L2 learning’, in G. Bartelt (ed.), The Dynamics of Language Processes, Gunter Narr, 1994, 15-31

‘Multi-competence and effects of age’, in D. Singleton and Z. Lengyel (eds.), The Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1995, 51-66

‘Multi-competence and the learning of many languages’, Language, Culture and Curriculum, 8, 2, 93-98, 1995

‘Some relationships between linguistics and second language research’, in K. Sajavaara and C. Fairweather (eds.), Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, Jyväskylä Cross-Language Studies 17, 7-13, 1996

‘Applying second language research to English language teaching’, in Cortazzi, M., Galea, S.M. & Hall, B. (eds), Aspects of Language Teaching, Learning and Research Methodology in the Context of Education, University of Leicester, School of Education, 20-28, 1996

‘Competence and multi-competence’ in G. Brown, K. Malmkjaer & J. Williams (eds.), Performance and Competence in Second Language Acquisition, 1996, CUP, 57-69

‘Universal Grammar in second language acquisition’, in P. Jordens & J. Lalleman (eds) Investigating Second Language Acquisition, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 167-186, 1996

‘The consequences of bilingualism for cognitive processing’, in A. de Groot & J.F. Kroll (eds.), Tutorials in Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997

‘Monolingual bias in second language acquisition research’, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 34, 35-50, 1997

‘L2 users and English spelling’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 18, 6, 474-488, 1997

Entries of varying length to K. & S. Johnson (eds.), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics, Oxford: Blackwell, on: acculturation, bilingualism, CALL, Chomsky, codeswitching, comprehensible input, Critical Period Hypothesis, declarative/procedural, generative grammar, good language learner, grammatical morphemes, information processing model, innateness, interlanguage, intonation, the Monitor Model, phatic communion, subset principle, threshold hypothesis, Universal Grammar, 1998

‘Internal and external uses of a second language’, Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, 100-110, 1998

'Relating SLA Research to Language Teaching Materials', Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1, 1-2, 9-27, 1998

‘Going beyond the native speaker in language teaching’, TESOL Quarterly, 33, 2, 185-209, 1999

'Using SLA research in language teaching', International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9, 2, 267-284, 1999

'Creating L2 users', Jurnal Kurikulum, 1, 2, CDC Kuala Lumpur, 1999

'The Author responds …', TESOL Quarterly, 34, 2, 329-332, 2000

‘Linguistics and second language acquisition: one person with two languages’. In M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller (eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Linguistics, 488-511, 2000

'Universal grammar', entry in M. Byram (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Language Learning, London: Routledge, 646-649, 2000

'Using the first language in the classroom', Canadian Modern Language Review, 57, 3, 402-423, 2001

'Knowledge of writing', International Review of Applied Linguistics, 39, 1-18, 2001

'The functions of invented sentences: a reply to Guy Cook', Applied Linguistics, 24, 2, 262-269, 2002

'Background to the L2 user', in V.J. Cook (ed.) Portraits of the L2 User, (editor and contributor) Clevedon, Multilingual Matters (2002), 1-28

'Language teaching methodology and the L2 user perspective', in V.J. Cook (ed.) Portraits of the L2 User, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters (2002), 325-344

'Teaching to create second language users', BATJ Journal, 3, 51-55, 2002

'The changing L1 in the L2 user's mind' in V.J. Cook (ed.) Effects of the Second Language on the First, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters (2003), 1-18

'Effects of the second language on the syntactic processing of the first language', with Iarossi, E., Stellakis, N. & Tokumaru, Y. In V.J. Cook (ed.), Effects of the Second Language on the First. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, (2003) 214-233

'Materials for adult beginners from an L2 User Perspective', in B. Tomlinson (ed.), Developing Materials for Language Teaching. London: Continuum (2003), 275-290

'The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument and structure-dependency in L2 users of English', IRAL, 41, 201-221, 2003

‘The spelling of the regular past tense in English: implications for lexical spelling and dual process models’ in G. Bergh, J. Herriman & M. Mabärg (eds.) An International Master of Syntax and Semantics: papers presented to Aimo Seppänen on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis: Göteborg: Sweden, 59-68, 2004

‘Basing teaching on the L2 user’, in E. Llurda (ed.), Non-Native Teachers, New York Springer, 47-62. 2005

An introduction to researching second language writing systems’ with Benedetta Bassetti. In V. Cook & B. Bassetti (eds) Second Language Writing Systems, Multilingual Matters (2005), 1-70

‘Written language and foreign language teaching’. In V. Cook & B. Bassetti (eds) Second Language Writing Systems Multilingual Matters (2005), 424-441  

'Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English', with Bassetti, B., Kasai, C., Sasaki, M. & Takahashi, J.A. International Journal of Bilingualism, 2, 137-152, 2006

‘Interlanguage, multi-competence and the problem of the “second” language’, Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata VI, 3, 39-52, 2006

‘The goals of ELT: reproducing native-speakers or promoting multi-competence among second language users?’ in J. Cummins & C. Davison (eds), Handbook on English Language Teaching, Kluwer, 237-248, 2007

‘Multi-competence: black hole or wormhole for SLA research?’ in Z-H. Han (ed.), Understanding Second Language Process, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 16-26, 2007

‘The nature of the L2 user’, in L. Roberts, A. Gurel, S. Tatar & L. Marti (eds.) EUROSLA Yearbook, 7, 205-220, 2007

 ‘Linguistic contributions to bilingualism’, in J. Altaribba & R. Heredia (eds) An Introduction to Bilingualism: Principles and Practice, Erlbaum, 245-264, 2008

 

 

III. Reviews of books have been contributed to IRAL, System, Word, Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Lingua, Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Clarion and Times Higher Education Supplement.