A comprehensive, current review of the research and approaches to advanced proficiency in second language acquisitionThe Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition offers an overview of the most recent and scientific-based research concerning higher proficiency in second language acquisition (SLA). With contributions from an international team of experts in the field, the Handbook presents several theoretical approaches to SLA and offers an examination of advanced proficiency from the viewpoint of various contexts and dimensions of second language performance. The authors also review linguistic phenomena among advanced learners through the lens of phonology and grammar development.Comprehensive in scope, this book provides an overview of advanced proficiency grounded in socially-relevant domains of second language acquisition including discourse, reading, genre-based writing, and pragmatic competence. The authoritative volume brings together the theoretical accounts of advanced language use combined with solid empirical research.* Includes contributions from an international collection of noted scholars in the field of second language acquisition* Offers a variety of theoretical approaches to SLA* Contains information on the most recent empirical research that contributes to an understanding of SLA* Describes performance phenomena according to multiple approaches to SLAWritten for scholars, students and linguists, The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive text that offers the most recent developments in the study of advanced proficiency in the acquisition of a second language.

Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xvii1 Introduction 1Paul A. Malovrh and Alessandro G. BenatiPart I Advanced L2 Capacity: Orientations on Acquisition 72 Systemic Functional Linguistics and Advanced Second Language Proficiency 9Marianna Ryshina-Pankova3 Psycholinguistic Approaches and Advanced Proficiency 30Leah Roberts4 What Does Critical Period Research Reveal about Advanced L2 Proficiency? 51Michael H. Long, Gisela Granena, and Fátima Montero5 Generative Approaches to Second Language (L2) Acquisition and Advanced L2 Proficiency 72Jason Rothman, Fatih Bayram, Tanja Kupisch, Terje Lohndal, and Marit Westergaard6 Interaction-Driven L2 Learning: Advanced Learners 94Nicole Ziegler and Lara Bryfonski7 Sociocultural Theory: Mediating Learners toward Advanced Proficiency 114Matthew E. PoehnerPart II Advanced Proficiency and Performance: Multiple Dimensions and Contexts 1318 Advanced-Level Grammatical Development in Instructed SLA 133Heidi Byrnes9 Individual Differences in Advanced Proficiency 157Paula Winke and Susan M. Gass10 The Prior Language Experience of Heritage Bilinguals 179Cristina Sanz and Julio Torres11 Meeting the Demands of Globalization: One Goal of ISLA Research 199Paul A. Malovrh and Nina Moreno12 Task Condition Effects on Advanced-Level Foreign Language Performance 219Gavin Bui, Peter Skehan, and Zhan WangPart III Advanced Phonology 23913 Advanced-Level L2 Phonology 241John Archibald14 Markedness and Advanced Development 264Fred R. Eckman15 Advanced Second Language Segmental and Suprasegmental Acquisition 282Kazuya Saito16 Connected Speech in Advanced-Level Phonology 304Burcu Gokgoz-Kurt and D. Eric Holt17 Voice Onset Time in Advanced SLA 323Alfonso Morales-FrontPart IV Advanced Grammar 34118 Advanced-Level Mood Distinction 343Aarnes Gudmestad19 Advanced Conceptualizations of Tense and Aspect in L2 Acquisition 361M. Rafael Salaberry20 Inflectional Morphology 381Roumyana Slabakova21 Advanced Lexical Development 401Stuart A. Webb22 Word Order and Information Structure in Advanced SLA 419Cristobal Lozano and Marcus Callies23 Advanced-Level Semantics 442Tania IoninPart V Advanced-Level Pragmatics, Discourse, and Sociocultural Literacy 46124 Advanced-Level Pragmatics in Instructed SLA 463Feng Xiao25 Advanced Reading Proficiency in Collegiate Foreign Language Learners 483Keiko Koda and Sihui Echo Ke26 Advanced Second Language Pragmatic Competence 505Naoko Taguchi27 Advanced Rhetoric and Socially Situated Writing 527Gregg Fields and Paul Kei Matsuda28 Variable Structures and Sociolinguistic Variation 547Kimberly L. GeeslinIndex 566