●About the book
●Acknowledgments
●1 Introducing Second Language Acquisition
● What is SLA?
● What is a second language?
● What is a first language?
● Diversity in learning and learners
● Summary
● Activities
●2 Foundations of Second Language Acquisition
● The world of second languages
● The nature of language learning
● L1 versus 1.2 learning
● The logical problem of language learning
● Frameworks for SLA
● Summary
● Activities
● Further reading
●3 The Linguistics of Second Language Acquisition
● The nature of language......
內容簡介
本書是針對二語習得初學者的實用型入門教材，它介紹了二語習得的一些基本概念，回答了第二語言是如何習得的、學習者習得什麼，以及為什麼有些學習者比其他學習者更為成功等問題，同時鼓勵學習者從語言學、心理學及社會學角度思考二語習得。書中每章都包含重要術語列表、小結及供自測和課堂討論的練習題。本書適用於語言學、心理學及教育學的初學者及外語教師。
作者muriel savme，troike為美國亞利桑那大學教授、在社會語言學和應用語言學研究方面都頗有建樹。
