Seventeen American scholars provide second language acquisition researchers, scholars, graduate students, and practitioners with the first text to give a broad overview of research conducted during the past 25-plus years on Spanish second language acquisition (SLA) by adults. The text is organized by specific aspects of Spanish SLA (e.g., phonology, tense/aspect, subjunctive, clitics, lexicon, pragmatics/discourse), specific approaches to the second language data (e.g., generative, cognitive, and sociocultural) and the role of instruction in the development of Spanish second language systems. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)