Core Issues in SLA Lecture Topics

(more or less week by week). NB there will be no class on 29th October as I am away. 

1. language teaching assumptions and SLA research (SLL&LT1)

2. learning and teaching different types of grammar (SLL&LT 2)

3. learning and teaching vocabulary (SLL&LT 3.2)

4. learning and teaching  pronunciation (SLL&LT 3.1)

5. strategies for learning and processing  (SLL&LT 4.6 & 5.4)

6. acquiring a new writing system (SLL&LT 3.3)

7. code-switching and multilingualism (SLL&LT 4.5, 7.1)

8. the nature of the L2 user (SLL&LT 8.5)

9. L2 user goals of language teaching: is the native speaker a proper model for language teaching? (SLL&LT 7.3; TESOLQ)

10. the role of the L1 in teaching (cmlr)