Author: HALLIDAY, M.A.K., GIBBONS, John & NICHOLAS, Howard eds.
Title: Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected Papers from the 8th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16-21 August 1987. Volume I.
Description: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1990. Hardcovers. Volume one only. Ex-library, o/wise good (no markings to text). No dust jacket. Includes papers on The Role of Transfer in Simultaneous Language Acquisition; Are Mothers Really the Main Mediators of Language?; On the Acquisition of Word Order Rules in Swedish as a Second Language; Linguistic Difficulties in Institutional Discourse etc. 508pp. ISBN 9027220735 or US ISBN 1566191057.

Keywords: language social linguistics sociology learning second acquisition theory theoretical