Full Description
Now in its third edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues to present a structured, comprehensive introduction to ISLA's theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical themes, as well as a range of key issues in research and practice.
Designed for ease of teaching, the text includes separate sections for empirical evidence and pedagogical implications in order to demonstrate how research findings can successfully be implemented in the classroom. Activities and discussion questions, as well as points for reflection, facilitate discursive learning and critical thinking. This third edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, along with new chapters on psychological, cognitive, and social individual differences, respectively.
This is an essential core text for courses on ISLA, and recommended reading for classes in Language Acquisition more broadly.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The nature of second language knowledge
Chapter 3 Interaction in the second language classroom
Chapter 4 Focus on form
Chapter 5 Sociocultural theory in the second language classroom
Chapter 6 The acquisition of grammar
Chapter 7 The acquisition of vocabulary
Chapter 8 The acquisition of pronunciation
Chapter 9 The acquisition of pragmatics
Chapter 10 Psychological individual differences and instructed second language acquisition
Chapter 11 Cognitive individual differences and instructed second language acquisition
Chapter 12 Social individual differences and instructed second language acquisition
Chapter 13 The research-pedagogy link
References
Index
