Oxford Applied Linguistics: Understanding Second Language Acquisition Second Edition

An excellent and much-needed, in-depth review of the research on how children and literate adults learn a second language. Ellis provides a sound knowledge base for language teachers and beginning graduate students in applied linguistics, focusing on relevant findings of research on second-language learning by children and literate adults in both naturalistic and instructed contexts. Elaine Tarone, Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota