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English Interlanguage Morphology

Irregular Verbs in Young Austrian EL2 Learners—Psycholinguistic Evidence and Implications for the Classroom

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Wagner

    1. Department of English, Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria

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  • Provides ?an up-to-date overview of the literature on apophony and verb morphology
  • Applies state-of-the-art statistical analyses as psycholinguistic evidence
  • Discusses how to exploit this evidence for didactic applications in the EFL classroom

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This book examines psycholinguistic elements of irregular verb morphology in English, using two empirical studies of young language learners in Austria to make evidence-based didactic recommendations for classroom use. The author first provides an up-to-date overview of the so-called past tense debate, encompassing the last four decades of linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cognitive research, before presenting an in-depth discussion of the notion of irregular and semi-regular verbal morphology in both German and English, with a focus on vowel change and apophony. Turning to his original research, he applies generalised linear mixed model analyses as well as conditional inference trees to the behavioural data, avoiding common pitfalls that come with traditional ANOVAs in repeated measure designs, and discusses the concrete implications of the experimental results on second language acquisition and instructed EFL teaching, with a focus on Input Processing. This book will be essential reading for SLA and applied linguistics researchers as well as graduate and postgraduate students in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. 

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas Wagner
    Pages 1-13

  3. Irregular Verb Morphology: Theoretical Accounts

    • Thomas Wagner
    Pages 15-29

  4. Irregular Verb Morphology: L1 and L2 Cognitive Accounts

    • Thomas Wagner
    Pages 31-58

  5. The Empirical Study

    • Thomas Wagner
    Pages 59-111

  6. Implications for the Classroom

    • Thomas Wagner
    Pages 113-139

  7. Conclusions and Limitations

    • Thomas Wagner
    Pages 141-150

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 151-153
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“The book provides a cogent overview of voluminous research on the acquisi-tion/processing of irregular verbs. A particular strength is the development of classroom applications based on theoretical principles and empirical findings. A valuable resource for practitioners as well as researchers interested in the development of L2 morphology.”
-Tom Rankin, Professor at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“In 25 Centuries of Language Teaching, Louis Kelly emphasised the importance of “the availability of research results to teachers in the classroom”. Drawing on a deep well of extant applied linguistic, psycholinguistic and pedagogical research, and adding original empirical experiments with real life learners, that is exactly what Wagner achieves. I also like the non-combative approach it takes. Why, indeed, should competing teaching and learning approaches be seen as mutually exclusive when, in fact, they are complementary?”

-Dr. Heinz Lechleiter, Lecturer (emeritus) for second language acquisition, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS), Dublin City University, Ireland

 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria

    Thomas Wagner

About the author

Thomas Wagner is H-S Professor for Applied Linguistics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich in Linz, Austria. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: English Interlanguage Morphology

  • Book Subtitle: Irregular Verbs in Young Austrian EL2 Learners—Psycholinguistic Evidence and Implications for the Classroom

  • Authors: Thomas Wagner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50617-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50616-1Published: 19 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50617-8Published: 02 February 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 153

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Morphology, Linguistics, general, Applied Linguistics, Education, general, Education, general

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