This textbook presents an up-to-date account of the main concerns,
problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second
language acquisition research. Research in this field has until
recently been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s
linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in
the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the
light these throw on how human language processing functions in
general. Moreover, it is only through an understanding of these
principles that foreign language teaching can become maximally
effective. In the first part of his book, Wolfgang Klein provides a
critical assessment of the current state of the art. The second
part, 'from the learner's point of view', is devoted to four
central problems which anyone learning a second language (either
through everyday communication or in the classroom) is faced with,
and whose solution constitutes the acquisition process. This
accessible introduction provides students of linguistics and
applied linguistics and anyone concerned with foreign language
teaching with a real understanding of the fundamental issues in the
field, or the advances that have not yet been solved and sometimes
not even approached.
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