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 childho
Understanding Second Language Acquisition
โ Scribed by Rod Ellis
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 472
- Series
- Oxford Applied Linguistics
- Edition
- 2nd
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
In the 30 years since Rod Ellis first published the award-winning Understanding Second Language Acquisition, it has become a classic text. This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acq
<span>This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition.</span>
Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition describes the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge, the scores these produce, and the way these
This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics. Roumyana Slabakova reviews and discusses paradigms and findings from the last thirty years of research in the field, focussing in particular on how the second or additional language is represented in