How Second Languages Are Learned: An Introduction

by Roger Hawkins

A comprehensive introduction to how people learn second languages (L2s), this textbook approaches the topic through five problems the L2 learner has to solve: 'breaking into' the L2; associating forms with meanings; learning sentence structure; learning phrasal and sentential meaning; and learning the use of the L2 in context. These problems are linked throughout to the L2 acquisition of lexis, morphology, syntax, semantics, phonetics/phonology and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108475035
• ISBN13: 9781108475037
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.9"