SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - created from Mind Map

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FIELDS

THEORIES

KEY THEMES IN SLA RESEARCH

Epistemological approaches.

Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA), which examines language development among infants and children when they grow up surrounded by two or more languages from birth

Child Language Acquisition, which investigates how infants and children learn their first language when they grow up surrounded by one language

The awakenings of SLA: interlanguage

From first theories to the cognitive and linguistic emphases of the 1990s

Theoretical expansions: socioculturalism and emergentism

SLA after the social turn

Corder (1967) and Selinker argued that researchers must turn for evidence to the actual language produced by learners as they try to communicate in the target second language

Krashen proposed that: the core ingredient of additional language learning is meaningful, comprehensible input; - the processes of additional language acquisition are implicit and subconscious and any explicit and the main obstacles to additional language learning for adults stem from affective inhibitions.

The study of L2 acquisition through the sociocultural theory of mind

The application of the usage-based, emergentist family of theories developed in cognitive science

Investigated L2 acquisition in a-social and decontextualized ways

Age

Crosslinguistic influences stemming from already known languages (mother tongue)

Environment and cognition

Three approaches to explaining variability of L2 learning across individuals

The role of instruction in SLA(Learning by instructional experiences)

Individual differences research

Socio-dynamic

Qualitative, sociocultural, and critical

Four theoretical approaches

Cognitive-interactionist

Formal linguistic

Vygotskian sociocultural

Usage-based emergentist SLA