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Ecology of Language Acquisition (Educational Linguistics Book 1) by Jonathan Leather, Jet Van Dam (auth.), Jonathan Leather, Jet van Dam (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ecology of Language Acquisition (Educational Linguistics Book 1) about?

While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, **Ecology of Language Acquisition** emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms.

Who reads Ecology of Language Acquisition (Educational Linguistics Book 1)?

Author

Jonathan Leather, Jet Van Dam (auth.), Jonathan Leather, Jet van Dam (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048161706

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Anthropology, Literary Fiction