Book reviews: Ellis, R. 1990: Instructed second language acquisition. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 230 pp
When Rod Ellis’ Understanding second language acquisition was published in 1985, it quickly became required reading in many university applied linguistics and education courses with an emphasis on second language teaching and learning. There had been a great need for a textbook providing a unified coverage of the rapidly growing field of second language acquisition research and this book filled that need. Instructed second language acquisition may be welcomed in the same contexts, since many instructors have felt the need for an update on the second language field, especially one with