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Product Description

Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign languages is increasingly recognised as a critical social and psycholinguistic issue. Second languages are vitally important to diverse groups of people, ranging from refugees to college students facing foreign language requirements. This book provides a synthesis of empirical findings on second and foreign language learning by children and adults, emphasising the design and execution of appropriate research.

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Features + Benefits

• Assumes no prior knowledge of SLA.
• Introduces major topics such as the scope of SLA research, research methodology for gathering and analysing data, the history and development of SLA research, and substantive findings on interlanguage development.
• Examines the linguistic environment for SLA, learner variables and explanations for success and failure, the role of theory in social science, and the effects of formal instruction on language learning.
• Includes discussion questions in each chapter.

 

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