Second Language Processing: Introduction, An

Description:Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough introduction to the field of second language processing (SLP). The study of SLP seeks to illuminate the cognitive processes underlying the processing of a non-native language. While current literature tends to focus on one topic or area of research, this textbook aims to bring these different research strands together in a single volume, elucidating their particularities while also demonstrating the relationships between them. The book begins by outlining what is entailed in the study of SLP, how it relates to other fields of study, and some of the main issues shared across its subareas. It then moves into an exploration of the three major areas of current research in the field-phonological processing, lexical processing, and sentence processing. Each chapter provides a broad overview of the topic and covers the major research methods, models, and studies germane to that area of study. Ideal for students and researchers working in this growing field, Second Language Processing will serve as the go-to guide for a complete examination of the major topics of study in SLP.

Contents: Chapter 1 Introducing Second Language Processing Chapter 2 Phonological Processing in L2: Concepts, Methods, and ModelsChapter 3 Phonological Processing in L2: Issues and Findings Chapter 4 Word Recognition in L2 Chapter 5 Processing complex words, multiword units, meaning in L2 Chapter 6 Sentence Processing in L2: Parsing Chapter 7 Sentence Processing in L2: Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Violations Epilogue

Author Biography: Nan Jiang is Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author of Conducting Reaction Time Research in Second Language Studies (2012) and numerous articles in leading journals of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.