Oxford Applied Linguistics The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition (2nd)

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.