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Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition

Posted 18 November, 2024

Now in its second edition, this highly accessible introductory textbook establishes the fundamentals driving the field of second language (L2) acquisition research, including its historical foundations. Intended for the novice in the field with no background in linguistics or psycholinguistics, it explains important linguistic concepts, and how and why they are relevant to second language acquisition. Topics are presented via a 'key questions' structure that enables the reader to understand how these questions have motivated research in the field, and the problems to which researchers are seeking solutions.

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Second Language Teacher Education

Posted 4 September, 2024

The main aim of this textbook is to provide both trainee language teachers and undergraduate students with an evidence-based second language teacher education programme. This textbook responds to the demand for a teacher education programme which is not based on simply training language teachers to use textbooks. In this textbook, how the principles derived from theory and research in language learning can be applied to day- to-day classroom language teaching pedagogy will be examined.

New Special Issue for the journal Instructed Second Language Acquisition to be published soon! Editor: Alessandro Benati

Language acquisition and language instruction: A neurolinguistics perspective

The idea for this Special Issue generates from the increasing interest of language instructors in the neuroscience of language. Research in the area of neurolinguistics has provided new insights in the acquisition of a second language which might have important implications for language instruction and instructors.

The goal of the proposed Special Issue is twofold: (i)  to provide an overall assessment of  the current state of the neurolinguistics research database from the point of view of its implications for language acquisition and language processing; (ii)  to highlight pedagogical implications of this research for second language instruction.