The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition

• Main Author: Block, David (Author)
• Other Authors: Davies, Alan (Editor), Mitchell, Keith (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2003
• Series: EDINBURGH TEXTBOOKS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
• Subjects: Second language acquisition; Sociolinguistics
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• Physical Description: 162 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-156) and index
• ISBN: 0748615520

There has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition David Block critically examines the key assumptions behind this research. He unpacks and analyses the way the key components of SLA are commonly understood, asking what is meant by the terms second, language and acquisition.