Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

This new edition of Vivian Cook's bestseller has been updated in order to deal with the effects of a changing and diversifying world and language-learning classroom. The latest sociolinguistic and didactic insights arising from these changes are now part of this book.

Vivian Cook was Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. His main interests were how people learn second languages and how writing works in different languages, particularly in street signs. He was a founder of the European Second Language Association and co-founder and co-editor of the journal Writing System Research. Dick Smakman is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and Second Language Teaching at Leiden University, the Netherlands. In his teaching and research, he combines the two fields. He has taught English and Dutch at various universities.

Preface Notes on the Text Part I. BACKGROUND 1. Learning and Teaching Language 2. Second Language Acquisition Research Part II. LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE 3. The Changing Classroom 4. Individual Learner Differences 5. Strategies for Communicating and Learning 6. Models of Second Language Learning Part III. TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE 7. The Learner and the Native Speaker 8. The Goals of Language Teaching 9. Second Language Pedagogy Part IV. LEARNING AND TEACHING SECOND LANGUAGE SKILLS 10. Writing 11. Grammar 12. Vocabulary 13. Pronunciation References Glossary Index