Understanding Second Language AcquisitionKey issues in second language acquisition - The role of the first language - Interlanguage and the natural route of development - Variability in interlanguage - Individual learner differences and second language acquisition - Input, interaction, and second language acquisition - Learner strategies - The universal hypothesis and second language acquisition - The role of formal instruction in second language acquisition - Theories of second language acquisition. |
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ability according acquired adult aptitude argues aspects Chapter child claims classroom cognitive communication competence concerned considered consists construction context Contrastive Analysis described determine discourse discussed early effects empirical English environment errors evidence examined example explained factors foreigner formal instruction functions grammar hypothesis identify important influence input instance instruction interaction interlanguage internal involves issue kind knowledge Krashen L1 acquisition L2 learners language acquisition language learning learning linguistic marked meaning morpheme motivation native speaker natural negative observed occur particular pattern performance personality position possible problem production proficiency provides questions refer reflect relative responsible result role route rules second language sentences sequence similar situation social specific speech stages strategies structures studies style suggests takes place talk target language tasks teacher teaching theory transfer types universals utterances variability
References to this book
Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms Jack C. Richards,Richards, Jack Croft Richards,Charles Lockhart No preview available - 1994 |
Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Learning in the Classroom Rod Ellis No preview available - 1991 |
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| Title | Understanding Second Language Acquisition Oxford Applied Linguistics Oxford English Understanding Second Language Acquisition, Rod Ellis |
| Authors | Rod Ellis, Rod R. Ellis (taalkunde), Professor Rod Ellis |
| Editor | Oxford University Press |
| Edition | 3, illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | OUP Oxford, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 12, 2008 |
| ISBN | 019437081X, 9780194370813 |
| Length | 327 pages |
| Subjects | › › Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics |
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