The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition presents anintegrated discussion of key, and sometimes controversial, issuesin second language acquisition research.
* * Discusses the biological and cognitive underpinnings of SLA,mechanisms, processes, and constraints on SLA, the level ofultimate attainment, research methods, and the status of SLA as acognitive science.
* Includes contributions from twenty-seven of the world's leadingscholars.
* Provides an invaluable resource for all students and scholarsof human cognition, including those in linguistics, psychology,applied linguistics, ESL, foreign languages, and cognitivescience.