FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT: A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - Softcover

Vanpatten, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072825618 ISBN 13: 9780072825619

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003

Synopsis

This new title in the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series provides an eminently accessible overview of key issues in second language acquisition research, written expressly for second language teachers. Avoiding highly technical jargon and terminology, the author gives a compelling account of current research while couching it within a framework that is of particular relevance to classroom practitioners. The result is an engaging reference that should be required reading for all language instructors and department heads. This book is also ideal for a teaching methods course or an introductory seminar on second language acquisition.

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About the Author

Bill VanPatten is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chanpaign, where he is Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and the Advisor for the undergraduate program in Spanish teacher education. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. His areas of research are input and output processing in second language acquisition, the impact of instruction on second language acquisistion, and the acquisition of Spanish syntax and morphology. He teaches a wide range of courses from beginning Spanish to doctoral seminars on language acquisition. He has published numerous articles and chapters in books and is the co-author of several McGraw-Hill Spanish textbooks. He is also the designer of Destinos, a television course for PBS.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072825618
• ISBN 13: 9780072825619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192