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Understanding Second Language Acquisition Rod Ellis

Understanding Second Language Acquisition By Rod Ellis

Understanding Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis


Summary

Provides readers with a comprehensive review of this important area of applied linguistics. Winner of the BAAL Book Prize, this book examines different theories of second language acquisition and the critical reactions to them.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition Summary

Understanding Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis

Rod Ellis provides readers with a comprehensive review of this important area of applied linguistics. He does not take up a particular stance, but examines different theories of second language acquisition and the critical reactions to them. Winner BAAL Book Prize

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'We have in this book a thorough, well-argued, cautious account of current work in the SLA tradition' * Bernard Spolsky, Applied Linguistics *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. Key issues in Second Language Acquisition ; 2. The role of the first language ; 3. Interlanguage and the 'natural' route of development ; 4. Variability in interlanguage ; 5. Individual learner differences and Second Language Acquisition ; 6. Input, interaction, and Second Language Acquisition ; 7. Learner strategies ; 8. The Universal Hypothesis and Second Language Acquisition ; 9. The role of formal instruction in Second Language Acquisition ; 10. Theories of Second Language Acquisition ; Conclusion ; Glossary ; References ; Index

Additional information

GOR001209375
9780194370813
019437081X
Understanding Second Language Acquisition by Rod Ellis
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1985-10-24
336
Winner of Winner of the BAAL Book Prize.
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