Achieving Success in Second Language Acquisition
ISBN: 9780511610431
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Cambridge University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited

This clear and informative textbook is designed to help the student achieve optimal success as a language learner and user. Aimed at beginning to intermediate undergraduates and above, it teaches students to understand their own preferences in learning, to develop individual learning plans and approaches, and to select appropriate learning strategies. The authors - all leading experts in language teaching - base their advice on theories of learning, cognition, and memory, concepts which they explain in simple and accessible terms. The book is divided into three sections - learning, language, and communication - and provides students with communicative strategies for use in real-life interaction with native speakers. Each chapter contains an overview and review section, with learning activities that students can carry out by themselves, in groups, or in the classroom. Equally suitable for use both by individuals and as a class text, this book will become an invaluable resource for all language learners.

Boris Vladimirovich Shekhtman was born on April 8, 1939. He grew up in Kiev, Ukraine. He received a master's degree in Russian language from the Grozny Pedagogical Institute (now part of Chechen State University). He arrived in the United States in 1979. He taught at the Foreign Service Institute before starting Specialized Language Training Center. He taught conversational Russian to a generation of American journalists, diplomats and entrepreneurs. He published several manuals including How To Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately. He died from complications of lymphoma on March 18, 2017 at the age of 77.

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