SPAN 360: Teaching and Learning Spanish (HC) Spring 2015: Background

Offers theories and approaches to second language acquisition.

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching.

This edited anthology provides nuanced discussion of the mechanics of second language acquisition and language teaching. Although the focus is on English as a second language, information about the cognitive aspects of language learning is useful for any language teaching.

Covers a broad range of issues including current theoretical approaches, alongside a variety of entries within such areas as the sound system, morphosyntax, individual and social factors, and instructed language learning. Presents a variety of methodological approaches spanning the active areas of research in language acquisition

Describes modes of instruction and provides detailed information about planning instruction and assessment.

Provides a panoramic overview of previous studies on the acquisition of Spanish as a second or foreign language, the theoretical approaches used in these studies, and the effects of various pedagogical approaches on the development of Spanish interlanguage systems.

This book is an encyclopedic survey of second language acquisition research as it has developed over the last forty years. It provides sections on learner language, the role of the linguistic environment and social context, internal mechanisms, individual learner differences, and the role of instruction.

A practical guide to the study and teaching of languages.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future.