Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition

Bill VanPatten is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies at Texas Tech University. Alessandro G. Benati is Reader in Second Language Acquisition and Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Greenwich, UK.

VanPatten (Texas Tech Univ.) and Benati (Univ. of Greenwich, UK) have written a book that will serve as a handy reference tool for students interested in the growing discipline of second language acquisition. [...] Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.

• 1) Second Language Acquisition: An Overview; 1.1 What is SLA?; 1.2 Historical perspective; 2) Key theories in Second Language Acquisition: Theory, Research and Pedagogy; 2.1 Key Theories; 2.2 Implications for Teaching; 3) Key Terms in SLA; 4) Key Texts in SLA; 4.1 General Key texts.