Second Language Acquisition (Ortega 2011)

Second Language Acquisition (Ortega 2011)

1. How additional languages differ from those learnt since birth

   • AGE: critical period vs critical period's sceptics
   • influences from previously known languages
   • environment and cognition

2. Factors that contribute to the variability in rates and outcomes of language learning

   • individual differences research
   • socio-dynamic
   • qualitative, sociocultural and critical

3. How humans learn additional languages

   • Bilingual First Language Acquisition (BFLA)
   • First Language Acquisition (FLA)
   • Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
     • cognitive-interactionist
     • formal linguistic
     • Vygotskian sociocultural
     • usage-based emergentist SLA

4. What it takes to obtain advanced language and literacy competencies?

   • Quality of the ambient input
   • Quantity of the ambient input