Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom

Chapter 1 Introduction: Generative Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy

Chapter 2 What Research Can Tell Us About Teaching: The Case of Pronouns and Clitics

Chapter 3 L2 Acquisition of Null Subjects in Japanese: A New Generative Perspective and Its Pedagogical Implications

Chapter 4 Verb Movement in Generative SLA and the Teaching of Word Order Patterns

Chapter 5 Modifying the Teaching of Modifiers: A Lesson from Universal Grammar

Chapter 6 The Syntax-Discourse Interface and the Interface Between Generative Theory and Pedagogical Approaches to SLA

Chapter 7 Alternations and Argument Structure in Second Language English: Knowledge of Two Types of Intransitive Verbs

Chapter 9 Explicit Article Instruction in Definiteness, Specificity, Genericity and Perception

Chapter 10 Whether to Teach and How to Teach Complex Linguistic Structures in a Second Language

Chapter 11 Great Expectations in Phonology? Second Language Acquisition Research and Its Relation to the Teaching of Older and Younger Learners

Chapter 12 Applied Generative SLA: The Need for an Agenda and a Methodology