1. Language learning in early childhood -- 2. Explaining second language learning -- 3. Individual differences in second language learning -- 4. Learner language -- 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
Summary
'How Languages Are Learned' provides a readable introduction to the main theories of first and second language acquisition, relating them to approaches to classroom methodology and practice
