The readership will include SLA and bilingualism researchers, students and teachers around the world. The breadth of the contributors in terms of countries, languages, aspects of language and different theories means that it relates to most courses in second language acquisition or bilingualism at some point wherever in the world they are taught.
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Vivian Cook is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is known for his work on second language acquisition, particularly for the concept of multi-competence, and has written technical textbooks and popular books on areas of linguistics ranging from intonation to first language acquisition to spelling.