Review article: Three new complementing second language acquisition textbooks

Claire Foley (1)

1 BC - Boston College

Three new textbooks in second language acquisition (SLA) differ in their aims. Saville-Troike (2006) offers a concise introductory text with an interdisciplinary approach. De Bot, Lowie and Verspoor (2005) provide a more comprehensive and more advanced introductory text with excerpts from the scholarly literature. Sanz (2005) presents an edited volume representing research in various subfields within an information-processing approach to SLA. All three offer valuable material for instructors to draw on, and they complement one another in interesting ways.

Mots clés: second language acquisition textbooks; introductory SLA course

Claire Foley. Review article: Three new complementing second language acquisition textbooks. Second Language Research, 2007, 23 (3), pp.359-379. ⟨10.1177/0267658307077645⟩. ⟨hal-00570732⟩