Índice; Bibliografía

Systemic functional linguistics and advanced second language proficiency / Marianna Ryshina-Pankova -- Psycholinguistic approaches and advanced proficiency / Leah Roberts -- What does critical period research reveal about advanced L2 proficiency? / Michael H. Long, Gisela Granena, and Fátima Montero -- Generative approaches to second language (L2) acquisition and advanced L2 proficiency / Jason Rothman, Fatih Bayram, Tanja Kupisch, Terje Lohndal, and Marit Westergaard -- Interaction-driven L2 learning: Advanced learners / Nicole Ziegler and Lara Bryfonski -- Sociocultural theory : mediating learners toward advanced proficiency / Matthew E. Poehner -- Advanced-level grammatical development in instructed SLA / Heidi Byrnes -- Individual differences in advanced proficiency / Paula Winke and Susan Gass -- The prior language experience of heritage bilinguals / Cristina Sanz and Julio Torres -- Meeting the demands of globalization : one goal of ISLA research / Paul A. Malovrh and Nina Moreno -- Task condition effects on advanced level foreign language performance / Gavin Bui, Peter Skehan, and Zhan Wang -- Advanced-level L2 phonology / John Archibald -- Markedness and advanced development / Fred R. Eckman -- Advanced second language segmental and suprasegmental acquisition / Kazuya Saito -- Connected speech in advanced-level phonology / Burcu Gökgöz-Kurt and D. Eric Holt -- Voice onset time in advanced SLA / Alfonso Morales-Front -- Advanced-level mood distinction / Aarnes Gudmestad -- Advanced conceptualizations of tense and aspect in L2 acquisition / M. Rafael Salaberry -- Inflectional morphology / Roumyana Slabakova -- Advanced lexical development / Stuart A. Webb -- Word order and information structure in advanced SLA / Cristóbal Lozano and Marcus Callies -- Advanced-level semantics / Tania Ionin -- Advanced-level pragmatics in instructed SLA / Feng Xiao -- Advanced reading proficiency in collegiate foreign language learners / Keiko Koda and Sihui Echo Ke -- Advanced second language pragmatic competence / Naoko Taguchi -- Advanced rhetoric and socially-situated writing / Gregg Fields and Paul Kei Matsuda -- Variable structures and sociolinguistic variation / Kimberly Geeslin.

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