Collection of essays, some previously published.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-146).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART ONE: SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING 1. Language Acquisition Theory and Materials Development 2. Core and Supplementary Activities in Language Teaching 3. The Din in the Head, Input, and the Language Acquisition Device 4. Second Language Acquisition Theory and the Preparation of Teachers: Toward a Rationale

PART TWO: IMMERSION AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION 5. Immersion: Why It Works and What It Has Taught Us 6. Does Bilingual Education Delay the Acquisition of English?

PART THREE: LITERACY 7. The Power of Reading Further Inquires

Bibliography

"This book is a collection of essays, some previously published and some recent papers appearing in print for the first time, that have a number of things in common. First, they are nontechnical papers that I hope can be read by nonspecialists. Second, they all assume the correctness of my theoretical work in language acquisition, but make no attempt to defend it or even to review the many studies it is based on. This is done elsewhere (see Krashen, 1981b, 1982, 1985). The essays in this volume explore some extensions and applications of the theory and illustrate how the theory helps provide insights and solve problems in several areas." (Introduction, p. 1)