The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780194421973)

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: Zolt疣 Dnyei
ISBN-10: 019442197X
ISBN-13: 9780194421973
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2008
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.36h x 7.10w x 0.76d