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 topicssuch 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.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-442197-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 356
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés