Ernesto Macaro is Professor of Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition) in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, UK. He has previously been a Head of Languages in a secondary school. His publications include Learning strategies in second and foreign language classrooms; Teaching and learning a second language (both published by Continuum) and Language learner strategies: Thirty years of research and practice (published by Oxford University Press).

• Part 1: The Second Language Acquisition Landscape; 1. Second Language Acquisition: the landscape, the scholarship and the reader, Ernesto Macaro (University of Oxford, UK); 2. A compendium of key concepts in second language acquisition, Ernesto Macaro, Robert Vanderplank and Victoria Murphy (Oxford University Language Centre and University of Oxford, UK); 3. Research methods in second language acquisition, Andrew D. Cohen and Ernesto Macaro (University of Minnesota, USA and University of Oxford, UK); Part 2: Issues and Relationships in Second Language Acquisition; 4. The relationship between first and second language acquisition revisited, Vivian Cook (Newcastle University, UK); 5. The relationship between age of learning and exposure to the second language in L2 children, Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford, UK); 6. The relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge and L2 vocabulary use, Paul Meara (University of Wales Swansea, UK); 7. The relationship between L2 input and L2 output, Susan Gass (Michigan State University, USA); 8. The relationship between pedagogical focus and interaction in L2 lessons, Paul Seedhouse (Newcastle University, UK); 9. The relationship between language aptitude and language learning motivation: individual differences from a dynamic systems perspective, Zoltan Dornyei (University of Nottingham, UK); 10. The relationship between strategic behaviour and language learning success, Ernesto Macaro (University of Oxford, UK); Conclusions Ernesto Macaro, (University of Oxford, UK); References; Index.

‘This is a valuable collection of papers, which can be warmly recommended to any student of second language acquisition.' - Michael Swan is a writer specializing in English Language teaching and reference materials. He is author of Practical English Usage (OUP, 2005)