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“Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics” (Jakobson 1953)

LG615 half-option: The L2 user Perspective

Aim to introduce MA  students to the developing work in second language acquisition research that starts from the L2 user as an independent user of language
Objective to enable students to develop an awareness of the theories and methods involved in the L2 User Perspective and to use them in relationship to particular situations of multilingual use
Prerequisite it is necessary to have previously covered an introductory course in second language acquisition e.g LG326 (formerly LG426)
Format

weekly talk and discussion of paper

Lecturer Vivian Cook
Content

  • Competence, interlanguage and multi-competence Chap 1

  • The nature of the L2 user and the native speaker 

  • Lexical representation in L2 users Chap 2

  • Phonology in L2 users

  • Syntax in L2 users

  • Cognitive processes of L2 users

  • The pragmatics of L2 use

  • Neurolinguistics of L2 users

  • Childhood development of an L2

  • State of the first language in L2 users

  • Implications for language teaching

Assessment an essay by the beginning of the summer term, reporting on a particular aspect of the L2 user. 
Main References

Bialystok, E. (2001), Bilingualism in Development, CUP

Cook, V.J. (ed.) (2002), Portraits of the L2 User, Multilingual Matters (particularly articles by Genesee, De Groot, Fabbro, Flynn, Bialystok, Major, Pavlenko)

Cook, V.J. (ed.) (to appear late 2002), Effects of the L2 on the L1, Multilingual Matters (particularly articles by Kecskes, Jarvis, Laufer, Murphy)

Grosjean, F. (2001) The bilingual's language modes. In J. Nicol (ed.) One Mind, Two Languages. Blackwell

Herdina, P. & Jessner, U. (2002), A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism: Changing the Psycholinguistic Perspective, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters

Kecskes, I. & Papp, T. (2000), Foreign Language and Mother Tongue. Lawrence Erlbaum

Paradis, M. (1998). Language and communication in multilinguals. In B. Stemmer & H.A. Whitaker (Eds.). Handbook of Neurolinguistics (pp. 418-431). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Pavlenko, A. (1999) New approaches to concepts in bilingual memory. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2, 209-30.

Satterfield, T. (1999) Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge: Extending the Principles and Parameters Approach. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Mondays 1-3, Spring term, 2003