The Study of Second Language Acquisition

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Oxford University Press, 1994 - 824 páginas
An up to date comprehensive introduction to second language acqusition research. Contains a general framework for the study of second language acquisition, provides a general description of learner language, accounts for the role of the linguistic environment, examines the learner's internal mechanisms, explores individual differences in language learning and reviews the expanding research on classroom second language acquisition.
 

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Introduction
9
Introduction
43
order and sequence
73
Variability in learner language
119
Pragmatic aspects of learner language
159
Introduction
193
Input and interaction and second language acquisition
243
Introduction
295
Learning strategies
529
Introduction
563
Formal instruction and second language acquisition
611
Introduction
667
Glossary
692
Bibliography
730
Author index
792
Subject index
805

Linguistic universals and second language acquisition
415
Introduction
469

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Rod Ellis is Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked in Zambia, the UK, Japan, and the US for extended periods. He has published a number of books on second language acquisition and teacher education. He has also published EFL/ESL textbooks.

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