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Halliday, M.A.K., John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas, eds. 1990. Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 1. John Benjamins. xx, 508 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | language proficiency

Annotation

This two-volume collection brings together papers first presented at the AILA Congress in 1987. In volume I, the overall focus is on the individual language learner, and how that individual develops a command of a language (first or second) in home and classroom settings.