Processability Theory and language development in children with Specific Language Impairment

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Modelling and assessing second language acquisition ix
5. About this book xv
6. Theory Development
7. The development of argument structure in the initial L2 mental grammatical system 3
8. Question constructions, argument mapping, and vocabulary development in English L2 by Japanese speakers 35
9. Processability Theory and language development in children with Specific Language Impairment 65
10. Testing the Developmentally Moderated Transfer Hypothesis 79
11. Theory Assessment
12. The ‘tense’ issue 101
13. Acquisition as a gradual process 121
14. Psychometric approaches to language testing and linguistic profiling – A complementary relationship? 135
15. Assessing linguistic levels of L2 English in primary school programs 163
16. Diagnosing L2-English in the communicative EFL Classroom 193
17. The cognitive processes elicited by L2 listening test tasks – A validation study 207
18. About the Authors 239
19. Index 243