The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

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 topics such 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.