Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The fourth edition of this classic textbook has been revised to reflect recent developments in language teaching and learning yet retains the basic structure and approach so popular with its readers. Teaching and learning content has been updated, particularly taking into account the rise of task-based learning, Conversational Analysis and social models of second language acquisition, changes in national syllabuses and examinations and the increasing controversy over the role of the native speaker target. Each chapter has been revised to stand alone, enabling the text to be taught and studied out of sequence if preferred. A set of focusing questions has also been added to each and further reading sections have been updated. In addition, icons appear throughout the text signaling where extra information -- summaries, data, lecture notes, test batteries and more -- can be found on the author's accompanying website, www.hoddereducation.com/viviancook. Second Language Learning and Language Teaching remains the essential textbook for all student teachers of modern languages and TESOL as well as applied linguistics.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Background to second language acquisition research and language teaching
• 2 Learning and teaching different types of grammar
• 3 Learning and teaching vocabulary
• 4 Acquiring and teaching pronunciation
• 5 Acquiring and teaching a new writing system
• 6 Strategies for communicating and learning
• 7 Listening and reading processes
• 8 Individual difference in L2 users and L2 learners
• 9 Classroom interaction and Conversation Analysis
• 10 The L2 user and the native speaker
• 11 The goals of language teaching
• 12 General models of L2 learning
• 13 Second language learning and language teaching styles