How does classroom language learning take place? How does an understanding of second language acquisition contribute to language teaching? In answering these questions, Rod Ellis reviews a wide range of research on classroom learning, developing a theory of instructed second language acquisition that has significant implications for language teaching.

The early chapters of this book trace the attempts to explain classroom language learning in terms of general theory of learning (behaviorism) and the study of naturalistic language learning. The middle chapters document the attempts...

Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning. This volume addresses motivation in language learning - motives associated with certain features of the language, the language learner, and the learning situation.

• Discusses and dissects the intriguingly complex characteristic of motivation in the process of language learning.
• Explores recent developments and the most important research directions in the field, including a selection of data-based studies by some of the best-known motivation researchers.

Reading and language learning are interdependent. While reading necessitates linguistic knowledge, reading ability enhances linguistic knowledge expansion. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between reading and language learning.

• Explores how reading and language learning are interrelated, bringing new insights to discussions on the
  unique nature of reading development in a second language


• Covers topics including cross-linguistic constraints on second-language reading development, bilingualism
  and literacy,...