Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency 1st Edition by Norman Segalowitz 0805856617 9780805856613

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ISBN 10: 0805856617 

ISBN 13: 9780805856613

Author: Norman Segalowitz

Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that points to promising avenues for understanding and promoting second language fluency. Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency covers essential topics such as units of analysis for measuring fluency, the relation of second language fluency to general cognitive fluidity, social and motivational contributors to fluency, and neural correlates of fluency. The author provides clear and accessible summaries of foundational empirical work on speech production, automaticity, lexical access, and other issues of relevance to second language acquisition theory. Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency is a valuable reference for scholars in SLA, cognitive psychology, and language teaching, and it can also serve as an ideal textbook for advanced courses in these fields.

Table of contents:

1 Fluency, Second Language Acquisition, and Cognitive Science
Why Study Fluency?
What is L2 Fluency?
Qualitative Issues in Defining Fluency
Quantitative Issues in Defining Fluency
A Cognitive Science Approach to Fluency
A Framework for Thinking about L2 Fluency
Blueprint of the L2 Speaker
Dynamical Systems Theory Approach
Heterogeneity of Elements and Agents
System Dynamics
Non-linearity
Openness
Adaptation
The Plan of the Book
Chapter Summary

2 Measuring L2 Oral Fluency
The Search for Potential Markers of L2 Oral Fluency
Communication Strategies
Speech Elicitation Tasks
Cognitive Fluency, Utterance Fluency, and Perceived Fluency
Chapter Summary

3 Fluency in General Cognitive Processing
Fluency Heuristics
Transfer Appropriate Processing (TAP)
Processing Flexibility
Closed versus Open Skills
Affordances
Chapter Summary

4 Second Language Cognitive Fluency
L2 Cognitive Fluency
Automaticity, Processing Efficiency, and L2 Cognitive Fluency
Automaticity Defined as Ballistic (Unstoppable) Processing
Automaticity as Processing Stability
Attention-Based Aspects of L2 Cognitive Fluency and Grammatical Processing
Attention-to-Language
Language-Directed Attention
Is There a Link between L2 Cognitive Fluency and L2 Utterance Fluency?
Chapter Summary

5 Social, Attitudinal, and Motivational Factors Underlying Second Language Fluency
Communicative Competence and the Social Dimension of Communication
Appropriateness
Naturalness
Formulaic and Fixed Sequences
The Motivational L2 Self System
An Integrated Approach to the Social Dimension of Fluency
Chapter Summary

6 Widening the Interdisciplinary Scope
Neuroimaging and Neurocognitive Studies of Fluency
Neural Correlates of L2 Fluency
Neural Correlates of Automaticity in L2 Processing
Neural Correlates of Attention Control in Language Selection
Formal Modeling
Philosophical Approaches
Chapter Summary

7 Toward a Cognitive Science of Second Language Fluency
An Emerging Cognitive Science Perspective
A Cognitive Science Perspective on the Nature of L2 Fluency
Context
Content
Process
Some Implications for Instructed Learning
Conclusions
Recommended Reading

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