Description: This important new book provides a critical overview of recent classroom-centered research and its implications for the teaching and learning of languages. Chaudron synthesizes and evaluates crucial research about the way student and teacher behaviours affect language learning and discusses research methods. Second Language Classrooms will be of vital interest to researchers, language teachers, and curriculum specialists, as well as readers with a general interest in education, linguistics, sociology, or psychology.
Review Quotes: '... a remarkably comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of the empirical literature.' Rosamond Mitchell and Christopher Brumfir, Centre for Language in Education, University of Southampton