Resource Books for Teachers Psychology of Second Language Aquisition

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 acquisitionexplicitimplicit learning and memory, proceduraldeclarative 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.