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Generative Second Language Acquisition

2020
Most human beings grow up speaking more than one language; a lot of us also acquire an additional language or languages other than our mother tongue. This Element in the Second Language Acquisition series investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages later in life and introduces the seminal processes involved in this acquisition.
Slabakova, Roumyana, Leal, Tania, Dudley, Amber, Stack, Micah   +3 more
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Demotivation in Second Language Acquisition

, 2015
AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Understanding Demotivation2 Prior Focus of Demotivation Studies3 The Importance of Demotivators in Second Language Acquisition4 A Survey Study to Test Demotivator Models5 Learner and Teacher Perceptions of Demotivators6 ...
Keita Kikuchi
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Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Learning to Use Language in Context

, 2014
Section I: Principles of sociolinguistic variation and second language acquisition Section II: Approaches to the study of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition Section III: Implications of research on the acquisition of sociolinguistic ...
Kimberly L. Geeslin, A. Long
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APTITUDE AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
Recent second language acquisition (SLA) research into the cognitive abilities implicated in implicit, incidental, and explicit learning, and in learning and performance on tasks differing in their information processing demands has prompted new theoretical frameworks for conceptualizing L2 aptitude. This research is reviewed and related to measures of
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The acquisition of second language writing

2013
This chapter reviews what is known about the acquisition of written language by examining studies from both L2 acquisition and L2 writing pedagogy. I will focus here on the language used by learners as they learn to write in their L2. Thus, the scope of the chapter will be limited to linguistic issues such as accuracy, complexity, the lexicon, and, to ...
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The Role of the Linguistic Environment in Second Language Acquisition

, 1996
Michael H. Long
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Theories in Second Language Acquisition

, 2020

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Second Language Reading Acquisition

2015
Literacy is a lifelong, context-bound set of practices that can vary with time, place, and an individual's needs. One can thus speak of multiple literacies and the importance of language policies that foster cultural diversity. Research has also shown the functional literacy practices via which individuals are socialized into various institutions to ...
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Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language

Cognitive Psychology, 1989
Jacqueline S. Johnson, E. Newport
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Second Language Acquisition of Japanese

2017
Empirical and theoretical research on language has recently experienced a period of extensive growth. Unfortunately, however, in the case of the Japanese language, far fewer studies—particularly those written in English—have been presented on adult second language (L2) learners and bilingual children. As the field develops, it is increasingly important
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