The new and updated edition of this bestselling introductory textbook is a comprehensive overview of the field of second language acquisition. In an easy-to-read, accessible style, it provides students with information about the scope of the field, but also provides background information on related areas such as first language acquisition. The book introduces students to current issues of data collection and data analysis, as well as provides an historical overview of the field, thus giving students context and perspective about how today's issues arise from earlier approaches.Each chapter offers discussion questions and/or problems so that students can put their knowledge to use in a way that is relevant to what they have learned, but that also challenges them to go beyond what is in the chapter and to relate information across chapters. The book covers a range of areas of second language research including sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic perspectives. It also includes a chapter on the lexicon and on instructed second language learning. The concluding chapter pulls the information in the previous chapters together into a coherent framework that challenges students to think about the field of second language acquisition as a whole.

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In the age of the global village and the world wide web, understanding the way in which people learn languages is of ever increasing importance. This book makes the essentials of this rapidly expanding area of study accessible to readers encountering it for the first time.
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第二语言习得：Second language acquisition，ISBN：9787810467940，作者：埃利斯，Ellis著

A comprehensive and coherent account of the research and theory in the field of second language acquisition, including chapters on instructed SLA. This book is an encyclopedic survey of second language acquisition research as this has developed over the last forty years. It provides sections on the description of learners' language, the role of the linguistic environment and social context, internal mechanisms, individual learner differences, and the role of instruction. It provides a balanced account by representing a variety of perspectives, including cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural, and neurolinguistic.

《第二语言习得研究》全书分7个部分。第一部分是背景介绍，主要讨论第二语言习得的研究目标、研究内容和研究方法，并列出第二语言习得研究中存在的主要问题。第二部分是对学习者语言的描述，主要从学习者的错误、语言习得的发展方式、学习者语言的可变性以及学习者语言的语用特征这四个方面对学习者语言的特点进行了描述，使读者了解习得第二语言的方式及过程。第三、四、五部分是对第二语言习得的阐释。作者分别从学习者外部因素、学习者内部因素以及学习者个人差异三个角度对第二语言习得做出说明。第六部分从教学法的角度出发，探讨了课堂环境中的第二语言习得。第七部分为《第二语言习得研究》的结尾部分，主要从第二语言习得的研究资料、理论基础和实际应用三方面对该项研究的总体情况做出概括与总结，并进而指出该项研究的发展前景及其现实意义。

《第二语言习得概论》的目的是通过对语言学习者的语言及其形成过程进行讲座来帮助教师把这种模糊的、无意识实施的理论变成明确的、有意识地贯彻的理论。《第二语言习得概论》主要是针对两种读者而设计的：一是涉此领域、希望全面了解第二语言习得研究概况的学生；二是从事第二语言习得研究、希望全面掌握第二语言习得研究动态的教师。

本书是国内外首例采用行为实验、人工神经网络模拟和课堂教学实验多种研究方法，系统考察汉语作为第二语言的学习者汉语声调范畴习得的综合研究。书中探讨了学习者汉语声调范畴感知和产出的机制，模拟了汉语声调范畴建立的过程与补偿机制，并通过教学实验证实了知觉训练法能够切实有效地提高学习者汉语声调范畴的习得。
本书适合汉语教师、汉语作为第二语言习得与教学专业的研究生和相关研究人员阅读，希望为汉语声调教学提供可靠的理论依据和实验依据，提高声调教学的效率。