Performance and competence in second language acquisition

Contributor(s): Brown, Gillian. (Editor) | Malmkjaer, Kirsten. (Editor) | Williams, John, (Editor)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: 215 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0521551935 (hardcover); 9780521551939; 0521558611 (pbk.); 9780521558617Subject(s): Second language acquisition | Competence and performance (Linguistics)DDC classification: 418.007 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
On competence and performance and related notions / John Lyons -- The dimensions of lexical competence / Paul Meara -- Competence and multi-competence / Vivian J. Cook -- Learning and triggering in adult L2 acquisition / Jacquelyn Schachter -- On the notion of 'IL competence' in early SLA research : an aid to understanding some baffling current issues / Larry Selinker -- Developmental sociolinguistics and the competence/performance distinction / Philip Riley -- Competence and performance in language testing / Elana Shohamy -- Fundamental issues for connectionist language processing / Noel E. Sharkey -- Language learning, competence and performance / Gillian Brown.
Summary: This original collection revisits and re-evaluates Chomsky's classic competence/performance distinction from a wide variety of perspectives and areas of expertise. The discussion is placed within a broad framework, taking account of a view of language both as a societal construct and as internal, developing within the mind and/or brain. Renowned experts in the fields of lexis, sociolinguistics, connectionism, Universal Grammar, language testing and interlanguage draw together ideas from the most recent developments in second language learning and psychological theory. Germane to their debate is the question of whether it is helpful, or in principle possible, to draw a distinction between competence and performance in second language learning. The volume will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of applied linguistics, education and general linguistics.
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Includes Index.

On competence and performance and related notions / John Lyons --
The dimensions of lexical competence / Paul Meara --
Competence and multi-competence / Vivian J. Cook --
Learning and triggering in adult L2 acquisition / Jacquelyn Schachter --
On the notion of 'IL competence' in early SLA research : an aid to understanding some baffling current issues / Larry Selinker --
Developmental sociolinguistics and the competence/performance distinction / Philip Riley --
Competence and performance in language testing / Elana Shohamy --
Fundamental issues for connectionist language processing / Noel E. Sharkey --
Language learning, competence and performance / Gillian Brown.

This original collection revisits and re-evaluates Chomsky's classic competence/performance distinction from a wide variety of perspectives and areas of expertise. The discussion is placed within a broad framework, taking account of a view of language both as a societal construct and as internal, developing within the mind and/or brain. Renowned experts in the fields of lexis, sociolinguistics, connectionism, Universal Grammar, language testing and interlanguage draw together ideas from the most recent developments in second language learning and psychological theory. Germane to their debate is the question of whether it is helpful, or in principle possible, to draw a distinction between competence and performance in second language learning. The volume will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of applied linguistics, education and general linguistics.

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