Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers. This series provides a source of reference for both language teachers and teacher trainers. Each title can be used both as basis for courses and seminars and as a longer-term reference text for the teacher's bookshelf.

    How Languages are Learned
    This prize-winning, readable introduction to research in language acquisition is recommended reading for second language teachers worldwide. Now in its fourth edition, How Language are Learned is highly valued for the way it relates language acquisition theory and research to teaching and learning in the language classroom

    New for this edition
- Updated content gives teachers information about recent research on L2 learning
- Activities and Questions for Reflection personalise content and support critical thinking
- Extra Activities, Study Questions, and video available online at www.oup.comelt/teacher/hlal
- Also available as an e-book : see www.oup.com/elt for details

- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Introduction
- Before we begin

1. Language learning in early childhood
2. Second language learning
3. Individual differences in second language learning
4. Explaining second language learning
5. Observing learning and teaching in the second language classroom
6. Second language learning in the classroom
7. Popular ideas about language learning revisited

- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index