AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: PAPERS IN HONOR OF HENNING
WODE. Petra Burmeister, Thorsten Piske, and Andreas Rohde (Eds.).
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002. Pp. xxv + 552. 40.00
€ paper.
Wode's lifetime of scholarship can be divided loosely into three
general research areas, each of which comprises one section of this edited
volume: theory-building in first (L1) and second (L2) language
acquisition, the development of speech production and perception skills in
L1 and L2, and immersion education and foreign language teaching. This
first area of work, dating from the 1970s and early 1980s, draws in part
from Wode's detailed analysis of the language of his four young
children. The second, initiated in 1989 with Pieper, stems from a
large-scale study of early phonological development. Finally, the third,
begun in the wake of European integration, came out of his work to support
immersion programs and language learning in preschools and elementary and
secondary institutions.