'Students trained with this book will have a comprehensive background in the important areas, questions and methodologies of second language acquisition research and in the historical development of ideas about second language acquisition, and will have encountered some of the key papers at first-hand. In approach this is very different from other available introductions to SLA research in its concentration upon the development of the various parts of the learner’s mind rather than on research conducted around specific linguistic areas or dependent on particular linguistic theories and in its careful organisation for use as a course-book. I look forward to using it with my next generation of SLA students.'
- Professor Vivian Cook, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne  

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