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de Bot, Kees, Wander Lowieand Marjolijn Verspoor. Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 303 pp. £18.99. ISBN 0–415–338700–0, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, JANUARY 2007, Page 98, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cql135
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This volume forms part of the Routledge Applied Linguistics series, which provides comprehensive, up-to-date and wide-ranging texts for the use of students and researchers. Topics are explored, inter-related and deconstructed; key controversies are analysed; and influential readings from key names are brought together. The whole area is first explored in Section A: Introduction (pp. 3–86), looking at key terms and concepts, the history of the subject, the multilingual mind, and learners' characteristics, amongst other things. In Section B: Extension (pp. 89–234), all the areas opened up in Section A are given a much wider perspective, with citation and explication of influential articles, and in Section C: Exploration (pp. 237–74), the areas are given in-depth study. Each Section, particularly the third, contains tasks and examples – this is a hands-on and practical manual, extremely clearly presented, with numerous references to additional literature and aiming to stimulate the student to structure his or her own research projects. The three sections are supported by Further Reading (pp. 275–8), which extends useful sources for each section. The volume is concluded by an extremely comprehensive References section (pp. 279–97) and an Index (pp. 298–303).
