Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom

“The book aimed to bridge the so-called gap between SLA (Second Language Acquisition) research (theory) and classroom pedagogy (practice). With the empirical studies conducted in either actual classrooms or computer labs by teacher-researchers, the book offers a wide range of ideas and pedagogical implications related to textbook and material development; instructional tasks, activities, and exercises in speaking, writing, vocabulary, and grammar; feedback and error correction, and finally the use of technology and computers in the language classroom. Hence, the book has proven to be an invaluable source for practitioners, language teachers, curriculum and material developers as well as the directors of language programs. [...] On a final note, there is no doubt that this edited book flourishing with research ideas from a variety of contexts will attract and inform its readers with the actual classroom applications it offers.”

“The volume delivers what it set out to do, both in its selection of papers and its attention for methodological issue. For begining researchers, it provides a good introduction to the main methodological approaches to ISLA and the issues involved. More experienced researchers will of course recognize the issues these authors have grappled with, but they too will find food for thought in the detailed discussions of the pros and cons of different methodological choices.”