Second Language Acquisition

Alessandro Benati is Head of School of Education and Professor of Second Language Acquisition University College Dublin, Ireland.Tanja Angelovska is Professor and Chair of Research on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching of English at the University of Kassel, Germany.

Benati and Angelovska have produced an outstanding contribution to evidence-informed Second Language Acquisition and language teaching. Readers are introduced to essential knowledge, skills, and pedagogies, with underlying research explained in accessible language. Across each of the chapters, the key theories, practices, and research findings are meaningfully connected to valuable learning tasks that support the wealth of knowledge shared in this volume.

• List of FiguresList of Tables PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction to second language acquisition and theoretical views 2. Similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition 3. How learners process information in second language acquisition 4. The role and nature of explicit and implicit knowledge in second language acquisition5. How the internal system develops in second languageacquisition 6. How learners learn to communicate in second language acquisition 7. How previous knowledge might enhance second and third language acquisition 8. What we know about second language acquisition 9. Evidence-based language teaching according to second language acquisitionReferences Index