Foreign and Second Language Learning Language Acquisition Research and Its Implications for the Classroom

Name: Foreign and Second Language Learning Language Acquisition Research and Its Implications for the Classroom
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ISBN: 9780521274869

ISBN-10: 0521274869

ISBN-13: 9780521274869

Edition: 1984

Authors: William Littlewood, Michael Swan

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In Foreign and Second Language Learning, William Littlewood surveys recent research into how people acquire languages and considers its relevance for language teaching. He describes the most important studies and ideas about first language acquisition, and how these have influenced and developed into studies of second language acquisition. He considers the background of language theories which were current before the present interest in acquisition research, and looks at factors such as learners' errors, whether learners are predisposed to acquire language in certain sequences, why some people are apparently more successful at learning languages than others, and how learners make use of…

Book details

List price: $72.75
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/26/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 122
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.94" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.440



Introduction



First language acquisition



Behaviourism and second language learning



Errors and learning strategies



The internal syllabus of the language learner



Accounting for differences between learners



Models of second language learning



Using a second language



Learning and teaching


Postscript


Further reading


Bibliography


Index