Understanding Second Language Acquisition - Introduction

Understanding Second Language Acquisition - Introduction

1. Language

   • Make meaning
   • Communicate
   • Adress audiences
   • Learn another language

2. Second Language Acquisition

   • Complex influence
   • Phenomena
   • Interdisciplinary Enterprise
   • Autonomous discipline
   • Prodigious

3. Description, Evolution, Acquisition

   • Human faculty
   • Language understanding
   • Discourse analysis
   • Language in use
   • Languages share commonalities
   • Syntactic knowledge
   • Ontogenesis of language

4. L1, Bilingualism, SLA

   • First Language Acquisition
     • Predictable
     • Syntactic, morphological development
     • Abstract syntax
     • Language basics
   • Bilingualism
     • Two languages
     • Simultaneously
     • Wide-encompassing
   • Second Language Acquisition
     • Early years
     • Late childhood
     • Adolescence
     • Adulthood
     • Become competent
     • Multilingualism

5. Main Concepts and Terms

   • SLA
     • L2 acquisition
     • Mother tongue
     • Additional
   • L2
     • L2 learners
     • Naturalistic
     • Instructed
     • Interlanguage

6. Interdisciplinarity in SLA

   • Porous
   • Language teaching
   • Linguistics
   • Child language acquisition
   • Psychology
   • Subfield or branch
   • Autonomous academic disciplines
   • Strongly interdisciplinary

7. About this book

   • Universal influences
   • Earner language
   • Dimensions of L2

8. Summary

   • Human capacity
   • Bilingualim
   • Capabilities
   • First language
   • Language teaching

9. Annotated suggestions for further reading

   • Authoritative
   • Knowledge
   • L2 learning
   • SLA theories

10. SLA in the World

    • Higly relevant questions
    • Elective Bilingualism
    • Ways of teaching
    • Generate Knowledge
    • Children learn languages

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