Vivian Cook: Obscure Writings

Online Writings by Vivian Cook
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This collects various papers, reviews etc I have written, mostly about teaching methods, CALL, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) or writing systems. Some have appeared in obscure places or not at all or a long time ago (some may appear eventually in revised forms), but I feel are worth making available to a wider audience, plus papers in progress. My straightforward published books and articles are listed in Publications List. The texts here may differ marginally from the published form and also some tables/phonetics symbols etc may not have transferred well to the web; they are unedited (tempting as it is!) except for formatting. Other materials on SLA and language teaching can be found in SLA Topics, on writing in Writing System Topics. Note: Home videos of odds and ends can be found on the YouTube site Itsallinaword, and on TESOLacademic. And a video of a university public lecture is at Words Matter.
MORE OR LESS CURRENT WORK Key issues in SLA in prep Relating language and cognition- the speaker of one language 2011 Prolegomena to SLA Research 2010 The relationship between L1 and L2 acquisition 2010 Multi-competence outline 2010; Definition of native speaker 2010 Questioning traditional assumptions in language teaching 2010 printed version Who is the language user? Multi-competence and foreign language teaching 2010 TESOL NNEST Blog 2010 Applied linguistics and language teaching in the 21st century 2009 Groups of L2 users 2009 Multilingual UG as the norm 2009 The multi-competence perspective and the teaching of British Sign Language 2009

Largely Historical stuff (more or less in reverse order)

2000s

The goals of ELT: Reproducing native-speakers or promoting multi-competence among second language users? 2007

Multi-competence and Universal Grammar 2007

The nature of the L2 user Plenary EUROSLA Antalya Oct 2006

Interlanguage, multi-competence and the problem of the ‘second’ language 2006

Multi-competence - black hole or wormhole? 2005

Syntactic differences of Japanese bilingual speakers of English Vivian Cook, Chise Kasai and Miho Sasaki 2005

What is applied linguistics? popular article 2004

Bilingual cognition and language teaching (draft) Aug 2004

The spelling of the regular past tense in English 2004

Written language and foreign language teaching 2004

Effects of the second language on the syntactic processing of the first 2003

Effects of the L2 on L1 Intro 2003

Grammar in Second Language Learning BATJ 2003 abstract and notes

Basing teaching on the L2 user (draft) 2003

Bilingual Cognition Paper given at EUROSLA Basel Sept 2002

Requirements for a multilingual model of language production, very rough draft, comments welcome 2001

The changing L1 in the L2 user's mind draft Intro to L2 Effects on the L1, 2003

Using the L1 in language teaching 2001

The neglected role of written language in language teaching 2001

The innateness of a Universal Grammar principle in L2 users of English Essex Working Papers, November 2000

Is transfer the right word? paper given at 7th International Pragmatic Symposium, Budapest, July 2000

Language teaching materials for adults, draft

Spell it right, materials for teaching spelling ca 2000

1990s

Going beyond the native speaker in language teaching draft TESOL paper 1999

Using SLA research in language teaching IJAL Draft

Funny Spelling, unpublished, circa 1999

Teaching spelling, unpublished 1999

Creating L2 users, JURNAL KURIKULUM JILID1 BIL 2, 1999 http://www.ppk.kpm.my/abstract_bil2_99_vivian.htm

Orthographic processes in L2 users, unpublished, circa 1999

Spreading the influence of SLA research, unpublished, circa 1999

Relating SLA research to language teaching materials, Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics 1998 (link)

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

L2 users and English Spelling (outside link) 1997

Monolingual bias in second language acquisition research, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 1997

The consequences of bilingualism for cognitive processing 1997

Inside Language (1997) drafts
         The sound system of language
         Words and Meanings
        What is human about language? cut chapter

Perceptions of class and age in English vocabulary, unpublished, circa 1997

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,

Competence and multi-competence1996

Minimalism, vocabulary and L2 learning paper given at AILA, Jyvaskyla 1996

Strategies and UG theories unpublished Seville conference, circa 1996

The object of second language acquisition, unpublished, circa 1995

Multi-competence and effects of age 1995

Timed grammaticality judgements of the head parameter in L2 learning, in G. Bartelt 1994

Grammar in language teaching, conference paper given in Ghent, circa 1994

Learning and Teaching: five suggestions 1993

Evidence for multicompetence 1992

The poverty of the stimulus argument and multicompetence 1991

Multicompetence - jeu d'esprit or paradigm shift, conference paper given in Salzburg, 1991

Observational evidence and the UG theory of language acquisition, 1990

SHORTS (drafts etc of short popular pieces)
A is for Apes	G is for Gender	N is for Nicknames
Is English pronunciation unique?	Nu Spelin' 4 Old	Getting in a Strop about Spelling
Can they spell your name in Karachi? British & American style spelling
Helping children with spelling	Is spelling really hard?	Hard Spell