Understanding second language acquisition
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Understanding second language acquisition
(Understanding language series)
Routledge, 2013
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Second language acquisition : understanding
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Prefectural University of Hiroshima Library and Academic Information Center
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-289) and indexes
First published 2009 by Hodder Education
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading.
Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Age
Chapter 3. Crosslinguistic influences
Chapter 4. The linguistic environment
Chapter 5. Cognition
Chapter 6. Development of learner language
Chapter 7. Foreign language aptitude
Chapter 8. Motivation
Chapter 9. Affect and other individual differences
Chapter 10. Social dimensions of L2 learning
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