Theory and Practice 
of 

Second Language Acquisition

Vol. 1 (1) 2015

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2015



Editors-in-Chief
Danuta Gabryś-Barker

University of Silesia
Adam Wojtaszek

University of Silesia

Language Editor
David Schauffler

University of Silesia

Editorial Board

 Janusz Arabski  (University of Silesia, Katowice/Vistula University, Warsaw)
Larissa Aronin (Oranim College of Higher Education/Trinity College, Dublin)
Jasone Cenoz Iraqui (University of the Basque Country, Donostia – San Sebastian)
Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin)
Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls)
Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck)
Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw)
Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice)
Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney)
Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional 

Education, Konin)
Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (University of Opole, Opole)
Andrzej Porzuczek (University of Silesia, Katowice)
David Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin/University of Pannonia, Veszprem)
Eva Vetter (University of Vienna, Vienna)
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódz, Łódz)
Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia, Katowice)



Contents

Preface (Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Adam Wojtaszek)     .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .      5
Jolanta Latkowska

How Relevant is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Contemporary Psycholinguistic
Research? .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .      7

Larissa Aronin, Vasilis Politis
Multilingualism as an Edge  .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    27

Dorota Owczarek
Advanced FL Students’ Self-Perception of Their Language Identity  .    .    .    .    51

Xinyue Cécilia Yu
The Acquisition at the Interface of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
by French Adult Learners    .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     69

Priya Ananth, Masaaki Kamiya
The Effect of Prosody on Disambiguation: A Case of Universal Quantifier
and Negation .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    97

Arzu Ünel, Meryem Mirioğlu
Syntactical Modifications in Teacher Talk of Native and Non-Native Speakers
in EFL Classrooms   .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .   125

Tammy Gregersen
Aligning Who I Am with What I Do: Pursuing Language Teacher Authenticity     143