Let me bring you someone today who's done a tremendous amount of research on how the language acquisition process actually works! Join us to learn a lot about this process and welcome Bill to the show!  

Here's Bill's website: www.billvanpatten.net  

And all the references and research he mentions in the episode:  

B. VanPatten. (2019). The nature of language: A short guide to what’s in our heads. Alexandria, VA:  The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.  

B. VanPatten. (2017). While we’re on the topic: BVP on Language, Language Acquisition, and Classroom Practice. Alexandria, VA: The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.  

B. VanPatten. (2020). Theories and language teaching. In. B. VanPatten, G. Keating & S. Wulff (Eds.), Theories in Second Language Acquisition, 3rd edition (pp. 105-127). New York: Routledge.  

B. VanPatten. (2017). Situating instructed second language acquisition within second language acquisition: Facts and consequences. Instructed Second Language Acquisition, 1, 45-59.

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