Second language acquisition and the younger learner : child's play? / edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver, and Alison Mackey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Child\'s play? Second language acquisition and the younger learner in context. Jenefer Philip, Alison Mackey, and Rhonda Oliver -- Section I.Characteristics of child SLA -- Defining child second language acquisition, defining roles for L2 instruction. Howard Nicholas dn patsy M. Lightbown -- Perspectives on second language acquisition at different ages. Christine Dimroth -- Section 2.Instructed language learning in the early years of education -- When the gates opens: the interaction between social and linguistic goals in child second langauge development. Jenefer Philip and Susan Duchesne -- Developing conservational skills in a second language: language learning affordances in multiparty classroom setting. Asta Cekaite -- The impact of techer input, guidance and feedback on ESL children\'s task-based interactions. Rhonda Oliver, Jenefer Philip and Alison Mackey -- Negotiations of meaning in the classroom: Does it enhance reading comrehension. Kris Van den Branden -- Section 3.Instructed language learning in the later years of education -- Incidental focus on form and learning outcomes with young foreign language classroom learners. Eva Acloþn Soler and Mariþa del Pilar Garciþa Mayo -- Speeding up acquistion of his and her: explicit L1/L2 contrasts help. Joanna White -- Section 4. Child SLA at home and in the community -- Acquiring Japanese as a second language (JSL) in a naturalistic context: a longitudinal study of a young child from a processability theory (PT) perspective. Junko Iwasaki -- Learning a second language in the family. Rosamond Mitchel land Chong Nim Lee -- Home-scholl connections for international adoptees: repetition in parent-child interaction . Lyn Wright Fogle -- Language transfer in child SLA: a longitudinal case study of a sequential bilingual. Eun-Young Kown and ZhaoHong Han.