Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner (Routledge Linguistics Classics) - Hardcover

Gass, Susan M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805822089 ISBN 13: 9780805822083

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

This volume provides a definitive view of the relationship between input, interaction, and second language acquisition. In so doing, it should prove useful to those whose major concern is with the acquisition of a second or foreign language as well as for those who are primarily interested in these issues from a pedagogical perspective. The book does not explicate or advocate a particular teaching methodology, but does attempt to lay out some of the underpinnings of what is involved in interaction -- what it is and what purpose it serves.

Research in second language acquisition is concerned with the knowledge that second language learners do and do not acquire and how that knowledge comes about. This book ties these issues together from three perspectives -- input/interaction framework, information-processing, and learnability.

About this title

About the Author

Susan M. Gass is University Distinguished Professor (Department of English) and Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University.

Review

This text explores the role of input and interaction in second language acquisition and is intended for an audience interested in acquisitional and pedagogical aspects of a second language learning. The text offers an excellent review of the acquisition literature.
—Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language

...it is a pleasure to recommend this text to the fields of applied linguistics, cognitive science, language teaching pedagogy, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisitions....
—Applied Linguistics

Susan M. Gass has written an extremely readable book that explicates many of the most discussed issues in second language learning in the 1990s. Her intention, successfully achieved, is to demonstrate where theories and frameworks coincide, not just collide....This book is a valuable contribution to current discussions of second language acquisition.
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805822089
• ISBN 13: 9780805822083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208