Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency

Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that point to promising avenues for understanding and ultimately helping to promote fluent second language skills. "Cog [...]
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Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that point to promising avenues for understanding and ultimately helping to promote fluent second language skills. "Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency" covers such aspects of fluency as units of analysis for measuring fluency, its relation to general cognitive fluidity, social and motivational contributors to fluency, and neural correlates of fluency, and summarizes foundational empirical work on speech production, automaticity, lexical access and other issues of relevance to second language acquisition theory. It is a valuable reference for scholars in SLA, cognitive psychology, and language teaching, and an ideal textbook for advanced courses in these fields.