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Gass, Susan Mary was born on May 21, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of H. Harvey and Gertrude Dorothy Gass.
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Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (Volume 1)
( Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory ...)
Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related disciplines. To reflect current developments, new sections on using learner corpora, semantics and morphosyntax (within formal approaches to SLA), sociocultural approaches, gesture, priming research, and chaos theory have been added. Students will also find expanded discussions of heritage language learning, bilingualism, pragmatics, and much more. The redesigned fourth edition of Second Language Acquisition retains the features that students found useful in the current edition but also provides new pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners. As with previous editions, discussion questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their knowledge, and a glossary defines and reinforces must-know terminology. This clearly-written, comprehensive, and current textbook, by expert Sue Gass, is the ideal textbook for the introductory SLA course in second language studies, applied linguistics, linguistics, TESOL, and language education programs.
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Second Language Learning Data Analysis
(First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Second Language Learning Data Analysis: Second Edition (Volume 1)
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The purpose of this workbook is to provide students with practice in analyzing second language data. For the student of second language learning, "hands-on" experience with actual data is essential in understanding the processes involved in learning a second language. Working through exemplars of the kinds of interlanguages that learners do and do not create brings about a clearer understanding of the principles underlying these interlanguages, as well as the universal principles of language learning (those that are independent of particular languages and interlanguages). The goal in this workbook is to present data organized in such a way that by working through pedagogically presented data-sets, students are led to a discovery and understanding of theoretical and/or methodological issues. In addition, they acquire the ability to interpret data and to begin to draw conclusions from them. The authors intend that students should go from the data to a conclusion that includes a 3-part statement: *what else you should want to know about these data; *why this, specifically, and not something else; and *how one can empirically research what you want to find out. This sequence of questions forces students to constantly keep in mind the important question of falsification: What kind of data would it take to falsify the particular conclusions the students come to? As with the earlier edition of this workbook (Sorace, Gass, & Selinker), two audiocassettes provide language samples for use in the exercises. These cassettes and the teacher's manual are offered free of charge on adoption of the workbook for classroom use; a three-part set (workbook/manual/tapes) is also available.
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Susan Mary Gass
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Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1966; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974; Master of Arts, Middlebury College, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana U., 1979.
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Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1978-1979; lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979-1983; assistant professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983-1987; assistant professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1987-1989; associate professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1989-1990; professor, director English Language Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, since 1990.
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Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (Volume 1)
( Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory ...)
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Second Language Learning Data Analysis: Second Edition (Volume 1)
(The purpose of this workbook is to provide students with ...)
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Second Language Learning Data Analysis
(First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
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Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (Volume 1)
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Married William Josh Ard, February 14, 1975. Children: Aaron, Seth, Ethan.
