Portraits of the L2 User

Second Language Acquisition

by Vivian Cook (Editor)

Portraits of the L2 User treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an innovative overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and methods, seen from a common perspective.

360 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 2002

About the author

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Vivian Cook is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is known for his work on second language acquisition, particularly for the concept of multi-competence, and has written technical textbooks and popular books on areas of linguistics ranging from intonation to first language acquisition to spelling.

Reviews

[Eleanor Carson]

Very useful for my research. I found an online version and read it first, and then bought the book because I wanted to refer to several chapters.