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Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition: An Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model [Hardback]

(Innsbruck University, Austria)
  • Format: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 562 g
  • Pub. Date: 28-Jan-2021
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350148733
  • ISBN-13: 9781350148734
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  • Format: Hardback, 272 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 562 g
  • Pub. Date: 28-Jan-2021
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350148733
  • ISBN-13: 9781350148734
"This book explores the relation between second language (L2) production and comprehension at the level of processing. Proposing an 'Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model' of SLA, Anke Lenzing presents the results of a comprehensive empirical study to demonstrate the extent to which the two modalities rely on shared representations and/or shared processes. Through this detailed analysis, she sheds new light on the cognitive architecture of human language processing and offers a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work in the L2 acquisition process"--

Examining a key issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research, this book explores the relation between second language (L2) production and comprehension at the level of processing. The central question underlying this interface is the relationship between grammatical encoding and decoding, namely: are the two modalities of production and comprehension subserved by different types of processors, or by the same syntactic processing module?

Proposing an 'Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model' of SLA, Anke Lenzing presents the results of a comprehensive empirical study to demonstrate the extent to which the two modalities rely on shared representations and/or shared processes. Through this detailed analysis The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition sheds new light on the cognitive architecture of human language processing and offers a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work in the L2 acquisition process.

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Lenzings book is unique and compelling. The results of the study offer clear support to her hypotheses and have crucial repercussions not only for the theory and praxis of second-language teaching, but also for experimental and developmental psycholinguistics. This book deserves the serious attention of anyone active in these areas. * Gerard A.M. Kempen, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands * Clearly-explained theories form the foundation for innovative research techniques, which are brought together in coherent and consistent ways. Lenzing takes long-established insights and turns them into precise, testable claims that have the potential to be operationalised for other aspects of additional language development. * Howard Nicholas, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education, La Trobe University, Australia *

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Explores the relation between second language production and comprehension at the level of processing to offer deeper understanding of the second language acquisition process.
List of figures
vi
List of tables
ix
Acknowledgements xii
List of abbreviations
xiv
Introduction 1(6)
1 The architecture of human language processing
7(22)
2 The relation between production and comprehension in language processing
29(18)
3 The view on second language acquisition: Processability Theory and the Multiple Constraints Hypothesis
47(42)
4 The Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model of SLA
89(10)
5 The English passive as a test case for the Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model of SLA
99(18)
6 The study: Methodological considerations
117(18)
7 Testing the Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model of SLA
135(86)
Concluding remarks 221(3)
Appendix 224(1)
Notes 225(4)
References 229(21)
Index of subjects 250
Anke Lenzing is Full Professor of English Language Teaching at Innsbruck University, Austria.