L2 Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Comprehensible Input Perspective.

9781783096336

L2 Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Comprehensible Input Perspective

Nihat Polat

Multilingual Matters

2016

238 pages

$169.95

Hardcover

Second Language Acquisition; 104

P53

Finding a gap in the literature, Polat explores the learning, teaching, and assessment of a second language from the perspective of the role of comprehensible input, or input and its comprehension. He argues that there can be no meaningful discussion about the interactions of the learner, teacher, and environment and about the nature of the learning, teaching, and assessment processes without one of the main objects--the input. Among his topics are the theoretical foundation of input and comprehensibility, input in cognitive processing-oriented theories, input in socially-oriented theories, input-related factors in second-language teaching, factors related to culture and context, and modifications in assessment-related factors and comprehensible input. Distributed in the US by the National Book Network. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)