Lydia White

Lydia White

Lydia White is a researcher and educator in the area of second language acquisition (SLA). She is the James McGilvray Professor of linguistics and currently chair of the Linguistics Department at McGill University.

Her 1989 survey of SLA research, "Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition", has become a standard textbook in many university level SLA courses.Fact|date=July 2007 The book puts particular emphasis on research which explores the implications that the theory of linguistic universals (the Universal Grammar theory) has had upon second language acquisition approaches.

Books

*"Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition", 1982, Dordrecht: Foris
*"Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition", 1989, Amsterdam: John Benjamins
*"Second language acquisition and Universal Grammar", 2003, New York: Cambridge University Press

Articles

Lydia White has edited special issues of several leading journals in the field, and authored many articles in "Language Learning", "Studies in Second Language Acquisition", "Second Language Research", and "Language Acquisition".

References

* [http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/linguistics/people/WHITE.HTM Faculty profile at McGill]
* [http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/36/09/education/white/ The Reporter]
* [http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/conf2001/white.htm University of Illinois Page]
* [http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=15379 John Benjamins Page]
* [http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/pacslrf/white.html Biography at the University of Hawaii]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/saywhatyouthink.shtml]


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