Publications

Publication details [#39349]

Pica, Teresa. 1985. The Selective Impact of Classroom Instruction on Second-language Acquisition. Applied Linguistics 6 (3) : 214–222.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | teacher

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This cross-sectional study compares 18 adult native Spanish speakers' English second language proficiency, acquired through either exclusively classroom instruction, sole input from everyday social interaction, or a combination of the former and the latter.