This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreover, it is only through an understanding of these principles that foreign language teaching can become maximally effective. In the first part of his book, Wolfgang Klein provides a critical assessment of the state of the art at the time. The second part, 'from the learner's point of view', is devoted to four central problems which anyone learning a second language (either through everyday communication or in the classroom) is faced with, and whose solution constitutes the acquisition process. This accessible introduction provides students of linguistics and applied linguistics and anyone concerned with foreign language teaching with a real understanding of the fundamental issues in the field.
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An up-to-date account of the main problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. As such, this introduction provides students with a "real" understanding of the fundamental topics in the field and the advances achieved by empirical research.
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Every normal child acquires a language, his first language (or 'native tongue'), in the first few years of life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spontaneous language acquisition, spontaneous second language acquisition, basic learner varieties, early learner varieties, concomitant knowledge, spontaneous learner, learner variety, nonlinguistic knowledge, utterance information, first language acquisition, second language research, second language acquisition research, spontaneous acquisition, embedding problem, spontaneous learning, positioning rules, inflected words, second language instruction, situational knowledge, language processor, target variety, utterance time, deictic terms, full verb, target language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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spontaneous language acquisition, spontaneous second language acquisition, basic learner varieties, early learner varieties, concomitant knowledge, spontaneous learner, learner variety, nonlinguistic knowledge, utterance information, first language acquisition, second language research, second language acquisition research, spontaneous acquisition, embedding problem, spontaneous learning, positioning rules, inflected words, second language instruction, situational knowledge, language processor, target variety, utterance time, deictic terms, full verb, target language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Structure of Learner Varieties (Studies on Language Acquisition) by Henriette Hendriks (Editor) on 10 pages
- Second Language Syntax: A Generative Introduction by Roger Hawkins on 9 pages
- The Logic of Markedness by Edwin L. Battistella on 7 pages
- Form-Focused Instruction and Second Language Learning: Language Learning Monograph (Best of Language Learning Series) by Rod R. Ellis on 6 pages
- Second Language Teaching: A View from the Right Side of the Brain (Topics in Language and Linguistics) by M. Danesi on 5 pages
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