Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State of the Science
- ISBN-10
- 0878409076
- ISBN-13
- 9780878409075
- Category
- Foreign Language Study
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Author
- Barbara Armstrong Lafford
Description
While the focus is on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language, this is also an extremely useful volume for second language theoreticians and practitioners involved in all aspects of the pedagogy of other second languages. Students, teachers, program administrators, and scholars alike will benefit from the insights that the contributors bring to the myriad issues that language professionals confront."--BOOK JACKET.
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