In the age of the global village and the world wide web, understanding the way in which people learn languages is of ever increasing importance. This book makes the essentials of this rapidly expanding area of study accessible to readers encountering it for the first time.
1. Introduction : describing and explaining
2. The nature of learner language
3. Interlanguage
4. Social aspects of interlanguage
5. Discourse aspects of interlanguage
6. Psycholinguistic aspects of interlanguage
7. Linguistic aspects of interlanguage
8. Individual differences in L2 acquisition
9. Instruction and L2 acquisition
10. Conclusion: multiple perspective in SLA