Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Attaining Second Language Proficiency; Part 1: Theory and the Dimensions of Second Language Proficiency; 2. What Is 'Priming', And What Might Priming Techniques Be Able to Tell Us About L2 Learning and Proficiency?; 3. Cross-linguistic Influence In L2 Verb Frames: The Effects of Word Familiarity and Language Proficiency; 4. The Role of Working Memory in the Development of L2 Grammatical Proficiency; Part 2: Factors Contributing to the Attainment of L2 Proficiency.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Benati provides clarity about the characteristics and notion of language proficiency in the field of second language acquisition. He looks at four areas of research paradigmatically related to the role of proficiency: theorizing and measuring second language proficiency; the dimensions of L2 proficiency; factors contributing to the attainment of L2 proficiency; and attaining L2 proficiency in the classroom. It also contains a variety of research accounts about the specific factors which have an effect on proficiency together with a theorised measurement of proficiency in second language resear.
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Title
Issues in second language proficiency.
International Standard Book Number
0826435157
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communicative competence.
Second language acquisition.
Communicative competence.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Psycholinguistics.