Synopsis • The much anticipated revision of this bestselling textbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of SLA. The accessible format is designed for use in the introductory second language acquisition course taken by undergraduate and graduate students studying second language acquisition or applied linguistics in a variety of departments. Changes in the textbook reflect changes in the field: the field of SLA is now even more interdisciplinary than it was at the time of the previous edition. • The new and updated edition of this bestselling introductory textbook is a comprehensive overview of the field of second language acquisition. In an easy-to-read, accessible style, it provides students with information about the scope of the field, but also provides background information on related areas such as first language acquisition. System Volume Information Size Vista on this page.

The book introduces students to current issues of data collection and data analysis, as well as provides an historical overview of the field, thus giving students context and perspective about how today's issues arise from earlier approaches. Each chapter offers discussion questions and/or problems so that students can put their knowledge to use in a way that is relevant to what they have learned, but that also challenges them to go beyond what is in the chapter and to relate information across chapters. The book covers a range of areas of second language research including sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic perspectives. It also includes a chapter on the lexicon and on instructed second language learning.

Buy Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory. Edition, Gass and Selinker’s overview of the. The research field of Second Language Acquisition. The third edition of Second Language Acquisition. Gass and Larry Selinker.—3rd ed. 5.3 Child second language morpheme order studies 126.

The concluding chapter pulls the information in the previous chapters together into a coherent framework that challenges students to think about the field of second language acquisition as a whole. Table Of Content • CHAPTER 1: Introduction1.1.

THE STUDY of SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION1.2. THE NATURE of LANGUAGE1.3.1. Sound Systems1.3.2.

Morphology and the Lexicon1.3.4. THE NATURE of NONNATIVE SPEAKER KNOWLEDGE CONCLUSION SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READINGPOINTS FOR DISCUSSIONCHAPTER 2: Related Disciplines2.1.

SLA AND RELATED DISCIPLINES2.2. THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION/MULTILINGUALISM2.3. HERITAGE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION2.4.