Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Teachability and learnability
5. Chapter 1. Research timeline. The role of instruction 9
6. Chapter 2. How much English do children know before they are exposed to instruction? 27
7. Chapter 3. Morpho-syntactic development in the input 51
8. Chapter 4. Are speech and writing teachable? 71
9. Part II. Methods and assessment
10. Chapter 5. The elicitation of oral language production data 97
11. Chapter 6. Elicited imitation as a diagnostic tool of morpho-syntactic processing 119
12. Chapter 7. Grammatical accuracy and complexity in a speaking proficiency test 137
13. Part III. Cross-linguistic aspects of SLA
14. Chapter 8. Acquisition of nominal morphology in Norwegian L2 163
15. Chapter 9. Interlingual versus intralingual tendencies in second language acquisition 183
16. Chapter 10. The acquisition of Turkish (genitive-)possessive structures by adult Norwegian learners 205
17. Closing chapter
18. Chapter 11. Heritage language development and the promise of Processability Theory 237
19. Index 261