TY  - BOOK
AU  - Littlewood,William T.
TI  - Foreign and Second Language Learning: Language-Acquisition Research and its Implications for the Classroom 
SN  - 0521254795 (hbk)
AV  - P53.7 .L5 1984
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Learning, Psychology of
KW  - Second language acquisition
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-112) and index; Introduction; 1. First language acquisition; 2. Behaviourism and second language learning; 3. Errors and learning strategies; 4. The internal syllabus of the language learner; 5. Accounting for differences between learners; 6. Models of second language learning; 7. Using a second language; 8. Learning and teaching; Postscript; Further reading; Bibliography; Index
N2  - "In Foreign and Second Language Learning, 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.; The use of clear examples, the careful explanation and balanced commentary on the research enable the reader to evaluate the evidence and consider the relevance of work in this field to the day to day concerns of teaching and learning languages." (Publisher's Description)
UR  - http://www.cambridge.org/ca/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/foreign-and-second-language-learning?format=PB
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