Title	Ecology of Language Acquisition [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Leather, Jet van Dam
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0341-3
Descript	XII, 226 p. online resource

While most research on language acquisition continues to consider the individual primarily in closed-system terms, Ecology of Language Acquisition emphasizes the emergence of linguistic development through children's and learners' interactions with their environment - spatial, social, cultural, educational, and so on - bringing to light commonalities between primary language development, child and adult second-language learning, and language acquisition by robots. Such a situated, context-responsive perspective on acquisition is able to interrelate insights from a variety of paradigms and disciplines while avoiding unjustifiable appeals to normativity. The theoretical and empirical studies presented here challenge a number of dominant ideas in language acquisition theory and mark an important new research orientation. This work should be of interest to language acquisition researchers and professionals in a wide range of specialisms

1 Towards an ecology of language acquisition -- 2 Critical realism, ecological psychology, and imagined communities: Foundations for a naturalist theory of language acquisition -- 3 A tale of two computer classrooms: The ecology of project-based language learning -- 4 From joint attention to language acquisition: How infants learn to control othersโ behavior -- 5 Beyond cognitive determination: Interactionism in the acquisition of spatial semantics -- 6 Language socialization in childrenโs religious education: The discursive and affective construction of identity -- 7 An integrational linguistic view of coming into language: Reflexivity and metonymy -- 8 The ecology of an SLA community in a computer-mediated environment -- 9 Robot babies: What can they teach us about language acquisition? -- 10 Borrowing words: Appropriations in child second language discourse -- 11 Language acquisition behind the scenes: Collusion and play in educational settings

1. Linguistics
2. Artificial intelligence
3. Psycholinguistics
4. Linguistic anthropology
5. Linguistics
6. Psycholinguistics
7. Linguistic Anthropology
8. Linguistics
9. general
10. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)