Effects of the Second Language on First

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - the changing first language in the L2 user's mind, Vivian Cook; the influence of L2 on L1 collocational knowledge and on L1 lexical diversity in free written expression, Batia Laufer; "I feel clumsy speaking Russian" - L2 influence on L1 in narratives of Russian L2 users of English, Aneta Pavlenko; the intercultural style hypothesis - L1 and L2 interaction in requesting behaviour, Jasone Cenoz; probing the limits of L2 effects in the L1, Scott Jarvis; English from a distance - code-mixing and blending in the L1 output of long-term resident overseas EFL teachers, Graeme Porte; productivity and lexical diversity in native and non-native speech, Jean-Marc Dewaele and Aneta Pavlenko; second language influence on first language linguistic representations, Victoria Murphy and Karen Pine; cross-linguistic influence of L2 English on middle constructions in L1 French, Pat Balcom; effects of the second language on the syntactic processing of the first language, Vivian Cook, Elisabet Iarossi et al; economy of interpretation - patterns of pronoun selection in transitional bilinguals, Teresa Satterfield; a dynamic approach to language attrition in multilingual systems, Ulrike Jessner; how to demonstrate the conceptual effect of L2 on L1? Methods and techniques, Istvan Kecskes and Tunde Papp.

Portrait

Vivian Cook has taught at Ealing Technical College and North-East London Polytechnic; he now works at the University of Essex After writing EFL course-books, he concentrated on linguistics and language learning in books such as Chomsky's Universal Grammar and Second Lang--uage Learning and Language Teaching. His current interests are partly developing the concept of multi-compet--ence through books such as Portraits of the l 2 User and applying it to the design of language teaching materials, partly exploring the English writing system through books and articles. He was founding President of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA).