"Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related disciplines. To reflect current developments, new sections on using learner corpora, semantics and morphosyntax (within formal approaches to SLA), sociocultural approaches, gesture, priming research, and chaos theory have been added. Students will also find expanded discussions of heritage language learning, bilingualism, pragmatics, and much more. The redesigned fourth edition of Second Language Acquisition retains the features that students found useful in the current edition but also provides new pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners"--Publisher description.

1.Introduction -- 2. Second and foreign language data -- 3. Where do data come from? -- 4. The role of the native language : an historical overview -- 5. The transition period -- 6. Alternative approaches to the role of previously known languages -- 7. Formal approaches to SLA -- 8. The lexicon -- 9. Typological and functional approaches -- 10. Looking at interlanguage processing -- 11. Interlanguage in context -- 12. Input, interaction, and output -- 13. Instructed second language learning -- 14. Nonlanguage influences -- 15. Related disciplines -- 16. An integrated view of second language acquisition.