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

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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