Foreign and second language learning : language-acquisition research and its implications for the classroom / created by William Littlewood

First language acquisition Behaviourism and second language learning Errors and learning strategies The internal syllabus of the language learner Accounting for differences between learners Models of second language learning Using a second language Learning and teaching

In this book, William Littlewood surveys recent research into how people acquire languages and considers its relevance for language teaching. He describes the most important studies and ideas about first language acquisition, and how these have influenced and developed into studies of second language acquisition. He considers the background of language theories which were current before the present interest in acquisition research, and looks at factors such as learners' errors, whether learners are predisposed to acquire language in certain sequences, why some people are apparently more successful at learning languages than others, and how learners make use of their new language to communicate. --From publisher's description