Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ragnar Arntzen, Gisela Hêakansson, Arnstein Hjelde an d Jèorg-U. Kessler -- Part I. Teachability and learnability: 1. Researc h timeline. The role of instruction: Teachability and processability / Kristof Baten and Jèorg-U. Kessler -- 2. How much English do children k now before they are exposed to instruction? Applying Processability The ory to receptive grammar / Gisela Hêakansson -- 3. Morpho-syntactic dev elopment in the input: A study of second language learning textbooks / Anna Flyman Mattsson -- 4. Are speech and writing teachable? Re-examini ng developmental constraints on pedagogy / Bronwen Dyson -- Part II. Me thods and assessment: 5. The elicitation of oral language production da ta: An exploration of the Elicited Imitation Task / Kristof Baten -- 6. Elicited imitation as a diagnostic tool of morpho-syntactic processing / Jacopo Saturno -- 7. Grammatical accuracy and complexity in a speaki ng proficiency test / Anders Agebjèorn -- Part III. Cross-linguistic as pects of SLA: 8. Acquisition of nominal morphology in Norwegian L2: Tre nds and tendencies / Linda Evenstad Emilsen -- 9. Interlingual versus i ntralingual tendencies in second language acquisition: Expressing motio n events in English, Hungarian and Japanese / Miho Mano, Yuko Yoshinari and Kiyoko Eguchi -- 10. The acquisition of Turkish (genitive)-possess ive structures by adult Norwegian learners / Emel Tèurker-van der Heide n and Gèozde Mercan -- Closing chapter: Opening new perspectives: 11. H eritage language development and the promise of Processability Theory / Silvina Montrul.