Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Modelling and assessing second language acquisition: 30 years onwards (by Lenzing, Anke); 3. About this book; 4. Theory Development; 5. The development of argument structure in the initial L2 mental grammatical system (by Lenzing, Anke); 6. Question constructions, argument mapping, and vocabulary development in English L2 by Japanese speakers: A cross-sectional study (by Kawaguchi, Satomi); 7. Processability Theory and language development in children with Specific Language Impairment (by Hakansson, Gisela); 8. Testing the Developmentally Moderated Transfer Hypothesis: The initial state and the role of the L2 in L3 acquisition* (by Pienemann, Manfred); 9. Theory Assessment; 10. The 'tense' issue: Variable past tense marking by advanced end-state Chinese speakers of L2 English (by Zhang, Yanyin); 11. Acquisition as a gradual process: Second language development in the EFL classroom (by Roos, Jana); 12. Psychometric approaches to language testing and linguistic profiling - A complementary relationship? (by Hagenfeld, Katharina); 13. Assessing linguistic levels of L2 English in primary school programs (by Maier, Esther); 14. Diagnosing L2-English in the communicative EFL Classroom: A task-based approach to individual and developmentally moderated focus on form in a meaning-focused setting (by Kessler, Jorg-U.); 15. The cognitive processes elicited by L2 listening test tasks - A validation study (by Rossa, Henning); 16. About the Authors; 17. Index