The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research; non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learning and memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization of language skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the critical period hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning in educational contexts.

• Author
• Zoltán Dörnyei, Sarah Scuzzarello

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 339

• Series
• Oxford Applied Linguistics

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780194421973

• Genres
• linguistics

• Release date
• 2008