Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research

This textbook combines second language research, linguistics, pedagogical grammar, and language teaching to demonstrate how linguistic theory and second language acquisition findings can optimize classroom intervention research. It assumes a generative approach and covers intervention studies from various theoretical perspectives, with each chapter discussing relevant linguistic structures, core challenges, research findings, and classroom and lab-based intervention studies. Online resources include lecture slides and intervention materials, with data analysis exercises, making the content clear and ready to use for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students studying applied linguistics, education, or language teaching.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This comprehensive textbook, drawing from both classic and cutting-edge research, offers a groundbreaking approach to teaching grammatical phenomena to second language and bilingual learners. By seamlessly integrating second language research, linguistics, pedagogical grammar, and language teaching, it showcases how linguistic theory and second language acquisition findings can be effectively leveraged to optimize classroom intervention research. The book adopts a generative approach while covering intervention studies from diverse theoretical perspectives. Each chapter delves into relevant linguistic structures, explores core challenges, summarizes extensive research findings, and concludes with practical classroom and lab-based intervention studies. The authors equip readers with valuable tools to design linguistically informed intervention studies, including discussion questions, application questions, case studies, and sample interventions. Additionally, online resources are provided, featuring comprehensive lecture slides and intervention materials, accompanied by data analysis exercises to ensure the content is clear, accessible, and ready for immediate use. With a basic understanding of linguistics, this material caters to advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students pursuing studies in applied linguistics, education, or language teaching.

ISBN-13: 9781009013567