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Exploring Learner Language shows you how to analyse the language that students use in class. It helps you understand the challenges your students face and enables you to set what you have observed in a broader context of Second Language Acquisition theory. - If you are a trainee or practising teacher, it gives you the sort of hands-on language analysis skills that you cannot get from a purely theoretical course in Second Language Acquisition.- If you are a teacher trainer, using this book and the videos will give your Second Language Acquisition course a practical edge that your trainees will be able to apply to their own teaching practice. The videos show a group of six adult ESL learners with different first languages doing a range of individual and pairwork speaking tasks. Each chapter of the book then gives you a range of linked exercises in which you describe the learners' characteristics and analyse the language they use to complete the specific tasks. There are also full transcripts and an answer discussion section for reference. As well as this detailed specific analysis of the tasks shown in the videos, each chapter gives more general information about how to analyse learners and learner language. You can apply this information both to analyse your own students and to gain a broader understanding of the process of Second Language Acquisition. The authors give you access to these more in-depth explanations by providing: - Explanations of specific Second Language Acquisition theories that help explain the learner behaviour and language that you can observe in the DVDvideos- References to related books and articles throughout each chapter - Further Reading sections at the end of each chapter.The book is organized into eight chapters: 1. Second Language Learners 2. Second Language Acquisition Research 3. Exploring Errors and Interlanguage 4. Exploring Developmental Sequences5. Learning in Interaction6. Exploring Reference7. Exploring Complexity in Language 8. Exploring Learner Language in the Classroom The book also contains an answer discussion section (for use with classes of teacher trainees or by individual readers for self-study), transcripts and written narratives, photocopiable resources, a glossary of all technical terms used in the book.

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'...Exploring Learner Language has great potential for making an impact on what we know about foreign/second language teaching and learning. With this manual in hand, teachers are well equipped to better understand their students' processes of language learning and to generate knowledge that is helpful both locally in their classrooms and to the field of second language learning in general.' Jason Martel, Language Magazine

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