Second Language Learning and Language Teaching: a support site for the book by Vivian Cook

Second Language Learning & Language Teaching: the Website Vivian Cook, 4th edition, Hodder Education 2008
	This is for users of the book Second Language Learning and Language Teaching (4th ed. 2008). It organises access to the Second Language Website in terms of its chapters and sections, and provides supplementary materials, printable summaries etc.	Youtube on cover
Keywords Vivian Cook SLA Topics Booklist Coursebooks List Crucial Links Online Writings Key Issues in SLA The coursebook for the Newcastle University course Core SLA Issues Note: there are also some experimental Youtube videos at Itsallinaword and a talk at TESOL Academic.

1	Background to second language acquisition research and language teaching
	1 The scope of this book	Background to Language Teaching Lecture Handout Article: What is applied linguistics? Quotations on Second Language Acquisition Article: Questioning traditional assumptions in language teaching Glossary of Teaching Methods Students' sentences What is L2 Learning? (handout) Youtube on book cover
	2 Common assumptions of language teaching
	3 What is second language acquisition research?
	4 Background ideas of SLA research
2	Learning and teaching different types of grammar
	1 What is grammar?	Summaries Chapter 2 L2 sequences notes Lecture Handout: Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition Krashen's Theory of SLA European Science Foundation article: The English past tense old article: grammar in language teaching YouTube: structure and content words
	2 Structure words, morphemes and sequences of acquisition
	3 The processability model
	4 Principles and parameters grammar
	5 L2 learning of grammar and L2 teaching
	6 The role of explicit grammar in language teaching
3	Learning and teaching vocabulary
	1 Word frequency	Summaries Chapter 3 SLL&LT vocabulary size test Exercise: Learning new words L2 vocabulary notes (with colours) Levels of Meaning Content and Structure words Word games: Guessing Games; Letter Games; Sequence Games How many words do you know? Basic: Advanced Quotes on words old articles: Words and Meanings Teaching vocabulary Which came first - the language or the concept? YouTubes: on wine (humorous); on 'passionate' Words Website
	2 Knowledge of words
	3 One word-store or two in the L2 user's mind?
	4. Types of meaning
	5. Strategies for understanding and learning vocabulary
	6. Vocabulary and teaching
4	Acquiring and teaching pronunciation
	1. Phonemes and second language acquisition	Summaries Chapter 4 Test of English Accent SLA Phonology old article: Sound System of Language YouTube on Tones
	2. Learning syllable structure
	3. General ideas abut phonology learning
	4. Choosing a model for pronunciation teaching
	5. Learning and teaching pronunciation
	6. The learning and teaching of intonation
5	Acquiring and teaching a new writing system
	1. Writing systems	Summaries Chapter 5 Exercise: E-deletion and Dickens Exercise: Punctuation and Tolkien Spelling jokes and rhymes Rules for structure words Correspondence rules for vowels L2 spelling notes L2 mistakes (1400 sample) L2 spelling article summaries article: Helping children spell article: Can they spell your name in Karachi? British and American style spelling article: Teaching spelling - punctuation test - English spelling tests - Spelling Games
	2. Spelling
	3. Punctuation
	4. The writing system and language teaching
6	Strategies for communicating and learning
	1 Communication strategies	Summaries Chapter 6 Communication Strategy Test Transcript of info gap activity Compensatory Strategies in SLA Learning strategies Learning Strategies Test Skeleton L2 learning strategies old articles: We have ways of making you talk The English are only Human
	2 Learning strategies
7	Listening and reading processes
	1 Meaning and reading	Summaries Chapter 7
	2 Listening processes
8	Individual differences in L2 users and L2 learners
	1 Motivation for L2 learning	Summaries Chapter 8 Motivation Motivation questionnaire Attitudes Other individual factors
	2 Attitudes
	3 Aptitude
	4 Age
	5 Other personality traits
9	Classroom interaction and Conversation Analysis
	1 Language and interaction in the classroom	Summaries Chapter Nine old article: Using authentic materials
	2 Language input and language learning
	3 Describing conversation
10	The L2 user and the native speaker
	1 The L2 user versus the native speaker in language teaching	Summaries Chapter 10 Questions for L2 users Codeswitching Definition of native speaker Exercise: Codeswitching Comparing First and Second Language Acquisition Using L1 in Language Teaching Article: Going beyond the native speaker article: Basing Teaching on the L2 User YouTube on the L2 User Can you talk Black? Lecture Handout: L2 user
	2 Codeswitching
	3 using the L1 in the classroom
	4 Are native speakers better language teachers?
	5 English as Lingua Franca
11	The goals of language teaching
	1 The different roles of second languages in societies	Summaries Chapter 11 Multilingualism Article: Goals of EFL Old articles: What should language teaching be about? Some assumptions in course design?
	2 Language and groups of speakers
	3 The goals of language teaching
12	General models of L2 learning
	1 Universal Grammar	Summaries Chapter 12 Models L2 and Universal Grammar Old article: "Universal Grammar and the Language Classroom Article: basing teaching on the L2 user Multi-competence and UG (draft) Annotated MC references Multi-competence menu Multi-competence: the Home Movie reel 1
	2 Processing models
	3 The Socio-educational Mode
	4 The interaction approach
	5 Sociocultural theory
	6 Multi-competence - the L2 user model
	7 General issues
13	Second language learning and language teaching styles
	1 The academic style	Summaries Chapter 13 teaching styles Teaching Styles Questionnaire old articles: Reciprocal language teaching Technique analysis- a tool for teachers Making up characters for roleplay
	2. Audiolingual style
	3 The communicative style
	4 Task-based learning
	5 The mainstream EFL style
	6 Other styles
Other webpages
	Tips for typing essays-dissertations in Word SLA Topics web site Age in SLA SLA quotes First and second language acquisition SLA research methods SLA research tools on-line (links) Neurolinguistics in SLA Article: Materials for adult beginners (draft) Article: What is applied linguistics? by Vivian Cook YouTube on meanings of language Other articles etc by Vivian Cook

	Second Language Acquisition Bibliography Writing Systems Website