The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities

By: Lourdes Ortega, Heidi Byrnes

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Hardcover | 21 February 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Researchers and educators routinely call for longitudinal research on language learning and teaching. The present volume explores the connection between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities, two under-researched areas, and proposes an agenda for future research. Five chapters probe theoretical and methodological reflections about the longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities, followed by eight chapters that report on empirical longitudinal investigations spanning descriptive, quasi-experimental, qualitative, and quantitative longitudinal methodologies. In addition, the co-editors offer a detailed introduction to the volume and a coda chapter in which they explore what it would take to design systematic research programs for the longitudinal investigation of advanced L2 capacities. The scholars in this volume collectively make the argument that second language acquisition research will be the richer, theoretically and empirically, if a trajectory toward advancedness is part of its conceptualization right from the beginning and, in reverse, that advancedness is a particularly interesting acquisitional level at which to probe contemporary theories associated with the longitudinal study of language development. Acknowledging that advancedness is increasingly important in our multicultural societies and globalized world, the central question explored in the present collection is: How does learning over time evolve toward advanced capacities in a second language?

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List of illustrations	p. vii
List of contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities: An introduction	p. 3
Theoretical and methodological explorations	p. 21
Developing qualitative longitudinal case studies of advanced language learners	p. 23
Systemic Functional Linguistic explorations into the longitudinal study of advanced capacities: The case of Spanish heritage language learners	p. 36
Investigating learner language development with electronic longitudinal corpora: Theoretical and methodological issues	p. 58
Planning, collecting, exploring, and archiving longitudinal L2 data: Experiences from the P-MoLL project	p. 73
Issues in the quantitative longitudinal measurement of second language progress in the study abroad context	p. 89
Empirical investigations	p. 107
Advancedness and the development of relativization in L2 German: A curriculum-based longitudinal study	p. 109
Advanced learners' development of systematic vocabulary knowledge: Learning German vocabulary with inseparable prefixes	p. 139
Teaching grammatical meaning to advanced learners: A cognitive-semantic perspective	p. 163
L1-L2 translation versus no translation: A longitudinal study of focus-on-formS within a meaning-focused curriculum	p. 182
Longitudinal gain of higher-order inferential abilities in L2 English: Accuracy, speed, and conventionality	p. 203
Histories of engagement and sociolinguistic awareness in study abroad: Colloquial French	p. 223
Acquiring oral language skills over the course of a high school year abroad: What's in it for absolute beginners?	p. 247
An ethnographic longitudinal approach to the development of assessment for advanced competencies of medical interpreters	p. 264
Coda	p. 279
Theorizing advancedness, setting up the longitudinal research agenda	p. 281
Author index	p. 301
Subject index	p. 305
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