Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

This new edition of Vivian Cook's bestseller has been updated in order to deal with the effects of a changing and diversifying world and language-learning classroom. The latest sociolinguistic and didactic insights arising from these changes are now part of this book.

List of contents

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Foreword
Part A. BACKGROUND
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1. Learning and Teaching Language
2. Second Language Acquisition Research
Part B. LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE
3. The Changing Classroom
4. Individual Learner Differences
5. Strategies for Communicating and Learning
6. Models of Second Language Learning
Part C. TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE
7. The Learner and the Native Speaker
8. The Goals of Language Teaching
9. Second Language Pedagogy
Part D. LEARNING AND TEACHING SECOND LANGUAGE SKILLS
10. Writing
11. Grammar
12. Vocabulary
13. Pronunciation
References
Glossary
Index

About the author

Vivian Cook was Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. His main interests were how people learn second languages and how writing works in different languages, particularly in street signs. He was a founder of the European Second Language Association and co-founder and co-editor of the journal Writing System Research.
Dick Smakman is Lecturer of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Teaching at Leiden University. In his teachings and research he combines the two fields. He has taught English and Dutch at various universities.

Product details

• Authors: Vivian (Newcastle University Cook, Cook Vivian, Smakman Dick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032787275
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278727-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language acquisition, Language teaching and learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy