Introducing Second Language Acquisition

by Muriel Saville-Troike and Karen Barto

Book Overview

Written for students encountering the topic for the first time, this is a clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition (SLA). Using non-technical language, it explains how a second... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521794072
• ISBN13: 9780521794077
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Pretty good as an overview

Read this book for a psycholinguistics class. It was good as an overview of the three fields from which SLA can be approached. As a psychology student, I was especially interested in the chapter focused on that area and found it to be decent. As the title makes clear, this is an introductory book that is necessarily limited in content. It's easy to read and provides many references for the interested reader to peruse and gain more knowledge about a given subject matter. Overall, it's a good starting point to understanding the important concepts in this field.

Lucid.

Lucid summaries/overviews of the major linguistic, social, and psychological theories behind SLA. Each chapter starts with a concise preview of what's to come, and ends with a useful self-test.