The Cambridge handbook of second language acquisition / edited by Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten.

5.3.1 Relative frequency of use.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Julia Herschensohn and Martha Young-
Scholten -- Part I: Theory and Practice -- Theories of
language from a critical perspective / Jan Koster --
History of the study of second language acquisition /
Margaret Thomas -- Theoretical approaches / Florence Myles
-- Scope and research methodologies / Melinda Whong and
Clare Wright -- Part II: Internal ingredients -- The role
of the native language / Claire Foley and Suzanne Flynn --
Learning mechanisms and automatization / Richard Towell --
Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus /
Bonnie D. Schwartz and Rex A. Sprouse -- Learner internal
psychological factors / Jean-Marc Dewaele -- Alphabetic
literacy and adult SLA / Elaine Tarone, Kit Hansen and
Martha Bigelow -- Part III: External ingredients --
Negotiated input and output/interaction / Maria del Pilar
Garcia Mayo and Eva Alcon Soler -- Second language
identity construction / Elizabeth R. Miller and Ryuko
Kubota -- Socialization / Georges Daniel Veronique --
Variation / Vera Regan -- Electronic interaction and
resources / Astrid Ensslin and Cedric Krumme's -- Part IV:
Biological factors -- Age-related effects / Julia
Herschensohn -- Childhood second language acquisition /
Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva -- Incomplete L1
acquisition / Silvina Montrul -- Third language
acquisition / Jason Rothman, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and
Kees de Bot -- Language processing / Alice Foucart and
Cheryl French-Mestre -- Affect and the brain / Andrea
Mates and Anna Joaquin -- Part V: Properties of
interlanguage systems -- The lexicon / James Milton and
Giovanna Donzelli -- Semantics / Laurent Dekydtspotter --
Discourse and pragmatics / Roumyana Slabakova --
Morphosyntax / Tania Ionin -- Phonology and speech / Ellen
Broselow and Yoonjung Kang -- Part VI: Models of
development -- Explaining change in transition grammars /
Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott and Roger Hawkins --
Stage-like development and organic grammar / Anne Vainikka
and Martha Young-Scholten -- Emergentism, connectionism
and complexity / Randal Holme -- Input, input processing
and focus on form / Joe Barcroft and Wynne Wong --
Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development
/ Amy Snyder Ohta -- Nativelike and non-nativelike
attainment / Donna Lardiere.

A one-stop guide providing up-to-date coverage of the
central aspects of second language acquisition.