Students

This page contains resources for students using Second Language Acquisition, An Introductory Course, third edition in their course, including:

Author Interview

An interview with Susan Gass where she discusses the aims and scope of the textbook, as well as its interdisciplinary coverage of the SLA field.

Flashcards

Flashcards of the book’s glossary terms and definitions.

Audio

MP3 files of the audio data that accompanies the workbook, Second Language Learning Data Analysis, second edition. Workbook problems 1.1, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.8 have an audio component. If instructors hand out any of these problems for homework, students will be able to access the audio data even if they are outside of the classroom. The workbook is provided on the Instructors page of this website.

Appendix II of the audio data consists of additional data sets that can be used for analysis, and are unrelated to specific problems in the workbook. The data in this part is designed for students who are interested in the teaching and learning of languages other than English, providing them with ample opportunities for interlanguage analyses of the language of interest.

The following files have been converted into MP3 format from cassette tapes that accompanied the workbook. The original recordings had some sound quality issues, and so brief portions of the MP3 files may be difficult to discern.

• Problem 1.1
  
• Problem 6.1
  
• Problem 6.3
  
• Problem 6.4
  
• Problem 6.8 Part 1
  
• Problem 6.8 Part 2
  

Appendix II, Part One (Learner data)

• Native English speaker – picture description*
  
• Native English speaker – oral narrative
  
• L2 English, L1 French – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• L2 English, L1 Japanese, lower proficiency – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• L2 English, L1 Japanese, higher proficiency – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• L2 English, L1 Korean, lower proficiency – word list
  
• L2 English, L1 Korean, lower proficiency – reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• L2 English, L1 Korean, higher proficiency – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• L2 English, L1 Spanish, lower proficiency – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• L2 English, L1 Spanish, higher proficiency – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  

* All picture descriptions correspond to the picture on page 96 (Problem 6.4) of the workbook.

Appendix II, Part Two

• French, nonnative and native speakers – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• German, nonnative and native speakers – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• German, nonnative speaker – oral narrative
  
• Italian, nonnative and native speakers – word list, reading passage, picture description, oral narrative
  
• Japanese, nonnative and native speakers – picture description, oral narrative  
  
• Spanish, nonnative and native speakers – picture description, oral narrative