Book Reviews : A Cognitive Approach To Language Learning

This latest work by Peter Skehan is not for the uninitiated. Entitled A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning, it attempts to outline a view of SLA from exactly this perspective Those readers unfamiliar with the mam arguments surrounding key issues m second language acqwsition (SLA) like the debate between comprehension and production-onented views of second language processing, input processing, and umversalist models of language learnmg, will find this book difficult to follow and understand In essence, it assumes a fair bit of background knowledge on the subject matter In his