review perez leroux glass ed contemporary perspectives ana teresa perezleroux william r glass editors 1997 _ contemporary perspectives acquisition spanish _ volume 1 developing grammars edited perez leroux glass 217 xi pp isbn 157473 016 9 volume 2 production processing comprehension edited glass perez leroux 166 xi pp isbn 157473 017 7 cascadilla press somerville set isbn 157473 015 0 lc pc4074 85 c66 1997 reviewed h stephen straight sstraigh binghamton edu twovolume work contains nineteen papers seventeen english two spanish international set 31 authors including eighteen us universities five universities spain canada ranging length fifteen 34 pages comprise revised versions papers delivered conference held pennsylvania state university october 1995 separate sections child adult language acquisition 5 papers second language production 5 papers comprehension input processing 4 papers work provides exactly current wideranging overview issues suggested title prominent senior scholars james p lantolf james f lee juana liceras susana lopez ornat barbara lust bill vanpatten lend work rightful air authority numerous junior contributors including dozen phd candidates provide welcome promise good work come highlights include lopez ornat fascinating case study role spanish specific morphological patterning l1 emergence nominal verbal forms functions 1 320 virginia c mueller gathercole cecilia montes paradigmchallenging study emergence bi monolingual children grammaticality judgments regarding opposing que complementizer patterns whextracted embedded clauses 1 7595 christina sanz finely nuanced account changing role controlled versus automatized processes l2 production function performance task variables 2 4156 jeffrey reeder remarkable findings regarding dissociation phonetic perceptual skill pronunciation accuracy beginning advanced second language learners 2 7790 bill vanpatten authoritative overview pathbreaking research input processing second language learning teaching 2 93108 specialist readers appreciate currency range depth studies presented also appreciate overall quality rare collection conference papers volumes contain comprehensive index mentioned authors topics notes full lists references appear end paper advanced students find expositions quite uniformly accessible clear findings well presented thoroughly discussed editors anonymous reviewers jobs well non specialist readers however find volumes rather heavy going although papers successfully avoid jargonmongering even papers enticing titles like function language play acquisition l2 spanish james p lantolf 2 324 contain theoretical discussion great erudition analysis empirical data considerable complexity lantolf 75 item list references includes works vera john steiner alexei leontiev david olson lev vygotsky important authors usually neglected l2 research although readers find papers interest every paper makes contribution understanding topic taken together volumes contain something worth close attention every conceivable reader linguistics developmental experimental psycholinguistics second language theory pedagogy given longstanding facts 1 prominence spanish national language new world 2 preeminence spanish first language bilinguals us 3 ubiquity recently predominance spanish english languages studied schools colleges throughout americas spanish language acquisition spanish english child adult bilingualism ought among common wellsupported areas basic applied psycholinguistic research without going cultural economic political factors held back research pushed study spanish english bilingualism almost entirely politically charged domain mostly spanish subtractive bilingual education grateful pg bringing together impressive array highquality studies stimulate many pay attention widely available sources data critical issues l1 l2 acquisition theory psycholinguistics opposed sociolinguistics bilingualism _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ h stephen straight phd chicago 1972 professor anthropology linguistics directs programs linguistics languages across curriculum binghamton university suny taught since 1970 research includes study yucatec maya l1 acquisition comparative sociolinguistics translation theory l2 pedagogy multilingual education role receptionexpression dialectic models language cognitive processes