Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Section I Theoretical perspectives on language learning and teaching -- Approaches to language learning and teaching: Towards acquiring communicative competence through the four skills -- Section II Listening -- Towards acquiring communicative competence through listening -- Areas of research that influence L2 listening instruction -- Learning how to listen using learning strategies -- Academic listening: Marrying top and bottom -- Teaching listening: Time for a change in methodology -- Section III Speaking -- Towards acquiring communicative competence through speaking -- Areas of research that influence L2 speaking instruction -- Questions as strategies to encourage speaking in content-and-language-integrated classrooms -- Turn-taking awareness: Benefits for teaching speaking skills in academic and other contexts -- Teaching speaking: A text-based syllabus approach -- Section IV Reading -- Towards acquiring communicative competence through reading -- Areas of research that influence L2 reading instruction -- Developing strategic L2 readers… by reading for authentic purposes -- Finding a path to fluent academic and workplace reading -- Teaching reading: Individual and social perspectives -- Section V Writing -- Towards acquiring communicative competence through writing -- Areas of research that influence L2 writing instruction -- Techniques for shaping writing course curricula: Strategies in designing assignments -- Written in, written out: Who sets the standards for academic writing? -- Teaching writing: Orienting activities to students' goals -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

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