The Cambridge handbook of second language acquisition / edited by Julia Herschensohn Martha Young-Scholten.

Introduction / Julia Herschensohn and Martha Young-Scholten
Part I: Theory and practice. Theories of language from a critical perspective / Jan Koster
History of the study of second language acquisition / Margaret Thomas
Theoretical approaches / Florence Myles
Scope and research methodologies / Melinda Whong and Clare Wright


Part II: Internal ingredients. The role of the native language / Claire Foley and Suzanne Flynn
Learning mechanisms and automatization / Richard Towell
Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus / Bonnie D. Schwartz and Rex A. Sprouse
Learner internal psychological factors / Jean-Marc Dewaele
Alphabetic literacy and adult SLA / Elaine Tarone, Kit Hansen and Martha Bigelow


Part III: External ingredients. Negotiated input and output/interaction / Mar?ia del Pilar Garc?ia Mayo and Eva Alc?on Soler
Second language identity construction / Elizabeth R. Miller and Ryuko Kubota
Socialization / Georges Daniel V?eronique
Variation / Vera Regan
Electronic interaction and resources / Astrid Ensslin and Cedric Krummes


Part IV: Biological factors. Age related effects / Julia Herschensohn
Childhood second language acquisition / Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva
Incomplete L1 acquisition / Silvina Montrul
Third language acquisition / Jason Rothman, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and Kees de Bot
Language processing / Alice Foucart and Cheryl Frenck-Mestre
Affect and the brain / Andrea Mates and Anna Joaquin


Part V: Properties of interlanguage systems. The lexicon / James Milton and Giovanna Donzelli
Semantics / Laurent Dekydtspotter
Discourse and pragmatics / Roumyana Slabakova
Morphosyntax / Tania Ionin
Phonology and speech / Ellen Broselow and Yoonjung Kang


Part VI: Models of development. Explaining change in transition grammars / Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott and Roger Hawkins
Stage-like development and organic grammar / Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten
Emergentism, connectionism and complexity / Randal Holme
Input, input processing and focus on form / Joe Barcroft and Wynne Wong
Sociocultural theory and the zone of proximal development / Amy Snyder Ohta
Nativelike and non-nativelike attainment / Donna Lardiere.