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" Ecology of Language Acquisition "
edited by Jonathan Leather, Jet Dam.
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BL
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776561
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b596558
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edited by Jonathan Leather, Jet Dam.
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Ecology of Language Acquisition\ edited by Jonathan Leather, Jet Dam.
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003
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Educational linguistics, 1.
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(xi, 225 pages)
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9401703418
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: 9789401703413
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Notes on the Authors --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Towards an ecology of language acquisition --; 2. Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities: foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition --; 3. A tale of two computer classrooms: the ecology of project-based learning --; 4. From joint attention to language acquisition: how infants learn to control others' behavior --; 5. Beyond cognitive determination: interactionism in the acquisition of spatial semantics --; 6. Language socialization in children's religious education: the discursive and affective construction of identity --; 7. An integrational linguistic view of coming into language: reflexivity and metonymy --; 8. The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment --; 9. Robot babies: what can they teach us about language acquisition?- 10. Borrowing words: appropriations in child second language discourse --; 11. Language acquisition behind the scenes: collusion and play in educational settings --; Index.
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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.
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Linguistics.
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Jet Dam
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Jonathan Leather
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