Language Two

by Heidi Dulay, Marina Burt, Stephen Krashen

Book Overview

The text covers such topics as the effects of environment, age, and personality on second language acquisition; the role of practice by resenting information on curriculum planning and classroom procedures. Chapter summaries, study questions, and suggestions for further research follow each unit. In addition, the book includes numerous tables, graphs, and charts, as well as an extensive glossary, a bibliography, and an index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195025539
• ISBN13: 9780195025538
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

internal processing

Dear Sirs or Madams,Now I'm studying about internal Processing of Language two Book. The editors are Heidi Dulay, Marina Burt and Stephen Krashen. I can't contact them. I would like to know the answer of study questions as follows:1. The seven and ten year old of Turkish guestworkers in Munich are enrolled in a German public school. The children's father is working in an automobile plant and their mother keeps house. What would the primary motivation for learning German be : a)For the children? b)For the father? c)For the mother? Can you help me to answer this question and I would like to know which one of primary motivation among Integrative motivation, Instrumental Motivation and Social Group Identification is the most important for each person?2. Schumann, Holroyd, Campbell and Ward(1978)reported that subject who reported greater depth of hypotizability performed better on a pronunciation test of Thai words, a language previously unknown to them. Can this be related to the operation of the filter the organizer or the monitor? (Subjects heard the Thai words once and then repeated them). Could you please explain that which one of the monitor is the best important for this?Thank you for your kind attention and I'm looking to hearing from you soon.Best Regards,Natchaya

foundation for ESL, language learning

This highly important book clearly documents how people acquire language -- not how we "learn it" in school, but how we really get it. It is still a benchmark in the study of language teaching and learning. In fact, it is quite unfortunate that many of the concepts presented in this book have not been further investigated or documented.