LIN8001 Reading list

I post the reading list here for my own benefit as I will be exploring this literature through the semester and this provides me an easy cut-and-paste reference - and at this point I expect most readers will switch off, and go find a Sudoku or other amusement!

Bialystok, E. (Ed.) (1991). Metalinguistic dimension of bilingual language proficiency. In Language processing bilingual children (pp. 113-140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bowerman, M., & Levinson, S. (Eds.) (2001). Introduction. In Language acquisition and conceptual development (pp. 1-16). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brown, D. (2000). First language acquisition. In Principles of language learning and teaching (4th ed., pp. 20-48). White Plains, NY: Longman.

Corder, P. (1967). The significance of learner's errors, International Review of Applied Linguistics, 5 (4), 162-170.

Dornyei, Z., & Scott, L. (1997). Communication strategies in a second language : definitions and taxonomies, Language Learning, 47 (1), 173-210.

Dornyei, Z. (1998). Motivation in second and foreign language learning, Language Teaching, 31, 117-135.

Ellis, R. (1994). Learning strategies. In The study of second language acquisition (pp. 529-560). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harley, B., & Hart, D. (1997). Language aptitude and second language proficiency in classroom learners of different starting ages, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 19 (3), 379-385.

Jordan, G. (2004). Theory construction in second language acquisition (p. 183).

Krashen, S. (1982). Principles and practice in second language acquisition. Oxford, UK: Pergamon.

Mackey, A., & Gass, M. (2005). Second language research : methodology and design.

Mangubhai, F. (1997). Primary socialization and cultural factors in second language learning : wending our way through semi-charted territory, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Special Issue : Teaching Language Teaching Culture, (14), 23-54.

Oxford, L. (1999). Anxiety and the language learner : new insights. In J. Arnold (Ed.), Affect in language learning (pp. 58-67). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.


Peacock, M. (2001). Pre service ESL teachers beliefs about second language learning : a longitudinal study. System, 29 (2), 177-330.

Schumann, H. (1986). Research of the acculturation model for second language acquisition, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 7 (5), 379-392.

Singleton, D., & Lengyel, Z. (1995). Introduction : a critical look at the critical period hypothesis in second language acquisition research. In The age factor in second language acquisition : a critical look at the critical period hypothesis (pp. 1-29). Clevedon: Philadelphia : Multilingual Matters.

Skehan, P. (1998). A cognitive approach to language learning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Skehan, P. (1989). Individual differences in second-language learning (pp. 25-48). London, UK: E. Arnold.