Second Language Acquisition

by Wolfgang Klein

Book Overview

This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreover,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521317029
• ISBN13: 9780521317023
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"