This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the main methods of analysing samples of learner language. It examines the theoretical and research bases for the different methods, and thereby serves as an introduction to the field of second language acquisition research.

The book is intended for students on postgraduate courses in TESOL or Applied Linguistics, or for teachers wishing to do action research to find out more about how learners learn language.

The series attracts single or co-authored volumes from authors researching at the cutting edge of this dynamic field of interdisciplinary enquiry. The titles range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for the way language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of applied linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation for language pedagogy and its practice.

該系列吸引了在跨學科研究這個充滿活力的領域，進行研究的作者的單獨或共同撰寫的書籍。這些書名包括讓非專業讀者能夠理解這些發展的書籍，以及深入探討它們與如何將語言視為一門學科以及如何設計課程和課堂活動的相關性的書籍。因此，這些書籍不僅擴展了應用語言學本身的領域，為其研究賦予了額外的意義，而且為語言教育學及其實踐提供了不可或缺的專業基礎。
 

The scope of the series includes:
◆ second language acquisition

◆ bilingualism and multi/plurilingualism

◆ language pedagogy and teacher education

◆ testing and assessment

◆ language planning and policy

◆ language internationalization

◆ technology-mediated communication

◆ discourse-, conversation-, and contrastive-analysis

◆ pragmatics

◆ stylistics

◆ lexicography

◆ translation