· 2014· Review
Understanding Second Language Acquisition
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- 2014year
Short summary
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), covering its theories, research methods, and findings across various contexts.
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Key points
- The book surveys the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), which studies the learning of additional languages in later life.
- It covers accumulated findings, proposed theories, research paradigms, and future questions in SLA.
- The analysis considers universal, individual, and social forces impacting SLA in diverse contexts.
- It is structured as a textbook for students in applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, assuming no prior SLA knowledge.
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Abstract
Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science.Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.routledge.com/ortega.
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