Despite the key role played by second language acquisition (SLA) courses in linguistics, teacher education and language teaching degrees, student participants often struggle to bridge the big gap between SLA theories and their many applications in the classroom. This book raises awareness of key findings of SLA research. It is aimed at those on applied linguistics MA courses, TESOL/EFL trainees and is of use to in-service teachers. In order to overcome the 'transfer' problem from theory to practice, an approach to presenting SLA research has been devised so readers experience SLA...

Despite the key role played by second language acquisition (SLA) courses in linguistics, teacher education and language teaching degrees, student participants often struggle to bridge the big gap between SLA theories and their many applications in the classroom. This book raises awareness of key findings of SLA research. It is aimed at those on applied linguistics MA courses, TESOL/EFL trainees and is of use to in-service teachers. In order to overcome the 'transfer' problem from theory to practice, an approach to presenting SLA research has been devised so readers experience SLA...