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Zusatztext Readers searching for an introductory text that explores how second languages are learned alongside effective teaching practices need not look further. Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Introduction to Real World Applications is sure to please undergraduate students and future educators who will highly benefit from the down-to-earth foundation that it provides. The text not only reviews key theories and findings that are essential to becoming familiar with innovative language pedagogies, but it also encourages readers to reflect on how to further improve these teaching techniques. Informationen zum Autor Professor Alessandro G. Benati is Director of CAROLE at the University of Greenwich, UK Tanja Angelovska is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the Universität Salzburg, Austria Vorwort An systematic introductory look at second language acquisition theories and how they relate to the real world. Zusammenfassung This book is written in order to help undergraduate students and trainee teachers to reflect on certain topics and key issues related to second language acquisition. Despite the proliferation of books and introductory courses in second language acquisition, most of these books very often provide a very complex account of theoretical views in second language acquisition and sometimes fail to emphasise the crucial interplay between how people learn languages and what is the most effective way to teach languages.The overall purpose of this book is to provide an overview of second language acquisition research and theories by identifying the main key issues in this field and by highlighting the relevance of this research for classroom implications. The study of second language acquisition is a rich and varied enterprise, carried out by researchers, whose interests and training often lie in broader disciplines of linguistics, psychology, sociology, and education.Readers will be encouraged to critically reflect on the presented content through self-engaging thinking activities in the form of questions, matching activities, choices and conclusions about the implications of SLA theories to the real world applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction to second language acquisition2. Similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition3. How learners process information in second language acquisition 4. How the internal system develops in a second language5. How learners learn to communicate in a second language 6. What we know in SLA Bibliography Index ...
