Strategy and Skill in Learning a Foreign Language

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This book examine the process involved in acquiring language skills, both mental and social , and the notion of what makes a skilled language learner. At same time the author discusses what is known about teaching and procedures and how they are used by the learner; how tasks are set up, how tasks determine the student's approach, how teacher's feedback is formulated and how students use the feedback and incorporate it in the development of their skills in the language.