This book focuses on the role of cross-language awareness in foreign language learning, especially unrelated languages as a third or additional language. It brings together theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of foreign language acquisition, with special emphasis on the role of discrepancies in the cognitive processing of typologically different languages. The author defines unrelated languages in the context of methodological approaches to foreign language acquisition, investigates cross-language awareness competence in the context of unrelated language acquisition, establishes cognitive approaches to foreign language acquisition, and provides empirical evidence of discrepancies between languages using verbal aspect as an example. Finally, the empirical results are put into practice through guidelines and recommendations for raising cross-language awareness in third language acquisition. The interdisciplinary understanding of foreign language acquisition presented in this book will make it appealing to a wide readership of graduate students, faculty members and academic researchers in the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Third Language Acquisition (TLA), Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology and Education.
Author(s): Tina Čok
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 210
City: Cham
Preface
Acknowledgements
About This book
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
1.1 The Role of Linguistic (Un)Relatedness in Language Acquisition
1.2 Defining Language Status Within the Multilingual Perspective
1.3 Aspects of Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
1.4 Cross-language Awareness Competence Defined
References
2: Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Language Acquisition
2.1 East Asian and Western Cognitive Dichotomies
2.2 The Role of Cognition Within Language and Culture
2.3 Linguistic Relativity and/or Universal Grammar
2.4 Language: Culturally (In)Dependent Phenomenon?
2.5 If a Lion Could Speak, We Could Not Understand Him
References
3: Classification of Verbal Actions in Typologically Unrelated Languages
3.1 Aspectual Features and a Cross-language Classification of Lexical Aspect
3.1.1 Previous Research on the Chinese Aspect System
3.1.2 Towards a Cross-language Classification of Lexical Aspect
3.2 Chinese Aspect System
3.2.1 Expressing Perfectivity with LE, -guo, RVC and Verb Reduplication
3.2.2 Expressing Imperfectivity with zai, -zhe and zheng (zhengzai)
3.2.3 Neutral Grammatical Aspect
3.2.4 The Interaction of Grammatical and Lexical Aspects
3.3 Italian Tense-Aspect System
3.3.1 Finite Verb Forms and Grammatical Aspect
3.3.2 Non-finite Verb Forms and Grammatical Aspect
3.3.3 The Interaction of Grammatical and Lexical Aspects
3.4 Slovenian Aspect System
3.4.1 Grammatical Aspect
3.4.2 The Interaction of Grammatical and Lexical Aspects
References
4: Empirical Evidence of Conceptual Discrepancies Between Languages
4.1 Research Methodology
4.2 Analysis and Interpretation of the Results
4.2.1 Introductory Remarks
4.2.2 Overall Findings
4.2.3 Grammatical Aspect in Use
References
5: Guidelines and Recommendations for Raising Cross-language Awareness in TLA
5.1 Approaches and Techniques for Integrating Cross-language Awareness into Foreign Language Teaching
5.2 Elements of Cross-language Awareness in the Established Curricula
5.3 Guidelines and Recommendations for the Development of Cross-language Awareness
5.3.1 Linguistic Competences of the Teacher
5.3.2 Instructional Materials Design
5.3.3 Developing Cross-language Awareness (Guidelines for Teachers)
5.3.4 Rising Cross-language Awareness (Guidelines for Learners)
5.4 Final Thoughts on Cross-language Communication
References
6: Implications of the Topic and Directions for Practice and Future Research
6.1 Implications for Practice
6.2 Implications for Future Research
References
Index
