Learning and Teaching a Second Language

This comprehensive textbook provides an accessible research-based introduction to second language learning and teaching. Moving away from grammatically driven methodologies toward a linguistically anchored approach, it demonstrates the systematic study of languages through different units of everyday language use.

Juliane House is Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Toronto, Canada, and Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. She is Professor Emerita at Hamburg University, Germany; Research Professor at the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary; and Distinguished University Professor at Hellenic American University, USA and Greece.

Dániel Z. Kádár , MAE, DLitt, DSc, FHEA, PhD, is Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea. He is Chair Professor and International Director of the Centre for International Cooperation and Disciplinary Innovation at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China, as well as Young Changjiang Scholar of China. He is also Research Professor at the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary, and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maribor, Slovenia.