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Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers: How Languages are Learned

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(Please, bear with my English, I am not a native speaker) If you have a minimum of academic background (if not in Linguistics, in Social Sciences), it is your perfect first reading in SLA. The books gives you a good overall overview of the field and even if it aims, like most of this kind of books, to help undergraduate students to improve their understanding of the field, teachers will gain a very valuable insight into the field of Applied Linguistics. The global organization of the book might be reviewed and improved, but actually, I didn't realized its limitation before my second reading. Graduate students might prefers Lourdes Ortega's "Understanding Second Language Acquisition ", which constitutes a second step in my humble opinion.