这本书用简洁的语言概述了第二语言习得的研究状况，通俗易懂，对于刚入门的读者来说会有很大帮助。我认为该书在编排上最大的优点是在书的末尾有与正文有关的一些小案例，可以帮助读者更好的理解和掌握作者在书中讲到的理论。在读完这本书后，我自己感觉收获颇丰。
          ——Second Language Acquisition（Rod Ellis, 上海外语教育出版社）
1. What’s ‘Second Language Acquisition’?
1) Introduction: describing and explaining L2 acquisition
L2 is fairly a recent phenomenon, belonging to the second half of the twentieth century. ‘L2 acquisition’ can be defined as the way in which people learn a language   other than their mother tongue ,inside or outside of a classroom, and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) as the study of this.
2) What are the goals of SLA?
In general, SLA has not focused on the communicative aspects of language development but on the formal features of language that linguists have traditionally