Second Language, Acquisition and Second Language Learning

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Language Teaching Methodology Series General Editor: Christopher N. Candlin This book presents the first comprehensive theory of aduit second language acquisition, StephenD. Krashen's 'Monitor Theory'. Based on the important acquisition-learning distinction (which Earl Stevick has described as 'potentially the most fruitful concept for language teachers that has come out of the linguistic sciences during my Professional lifetime ...') Krashen's theory provides new insight into all areas of second language research and practice. Topics eovered include the acquisition of grammatical structures, the role of affective variables, aptitude, individual variation, age differences, and, most important, teaching methodology. Stephen Krashen is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California, USA. His other works include Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition, Writing: Research, Theory and Applications, The Natural Approach (co-author with Tracy... Tovább

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Language Teaching Methodology Series General Editor: Christopher N. Candlin This book presents the first comprehensive theory of aduit second language acquisition, StephenD. Krashen's 'Monitor Theory'. Based on the important acquisition-learning distinction (which Earl Stevick has described as 'potentially the most fruitful concept for language teachers that has come out of the linguistic sciences during my Professional lifetime ...') Krashen's theory provides new insight into all areas of second language research and practice. Topics eovered include the acquisition of grammatical structures, the role of affective variables, aptitude, individual variation, age differences, and, most important, teaching methodology. Stephen Krashen is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California, USA. His other works include Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition, Writing: Research, Theory and Applications, The Natural Approach (co-author with Tracy Terrell) and The Humán Brain (co-author), all of which are published by Prentice Hall. This book won the Kenneth W. Mildenberger (Modern Language Association) award as an outstanding research publication in the field of teaching foreign language and literatures. .. it is one ofthe most comprehensive and persuasive theories that has been devised to account for second language acquisition.' (BAAL Newsletter). Vissza