Understanding Second Language Acquisition - Lourdes Ortega - 9781138170339

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 childhood adolescence or adulthood after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field its accumulated findings and proposed theories its developed research paradigms and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal individual and social forces in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics foreign language education TESOL and education it is also recommended for students of linguistics developmental psycholinguistics psychology and cognitive science. Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.routledge.com/ortega.

TITLE: Understanding Second Language Acquisition

AUTHOR: Lourdes Ortega

SKU: 9781138170339

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 04/09/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 320

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 156 mm x 234 mm

WEIGHT: 612 gr