Core Issues in SLA Lecture Topics

(more or less week by week). The intention is to finish by Christmas.

1. language teaching assumptions and the SLA research background (SLL&LT 1) SLL and LT index is on line

2. learning and teaching vocabulary (SLL&LT 2)

3. learning and teaching grammar (SLL&LT 3)

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

5. strategies for learning and processing (SLL&LT 6)

6. ELF & CEF (SLL&LT 10.5)

7. code-switching and multilingualism (SLL&LT 10.2)

8. the nature of the L2 user (SLL&LT 10.1)

9. L2 user goals of language teaching: is the native speaker a proper model for language teaching? (SLL&LT 11; TESOLQ) TESOLQ on-line draft

10. the role of the L1 in teaching (10.3, cmlr) CMLR draft on-line