Adult second language acquisition: a selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system
Adult second language acquisition: a selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system
This review article selects and elaborates on the important issues of adult second language acquisition research in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The fundamental question of whether adult second language acquisition and child first language acquisition are similar or different is addressed throughout the article. The issues of a critical period for acquisition, the importance of the linguistic input, and processing are discussed. Generative as well as usage-based perspectives are considered. Future research concerns and promising areas of investigation are proposed.
critical period hypothesis, generative approaches to sla, linguistic input, processing, the bilingual turn, usage-based approaches to sla
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Slabakova, Roumyana
1bda11ce-ce3d-4146-8ae3-4a486b6f5bde
February 2013
Slabakova, Roumyana
1bda11ce-ce3d-4146-8ae3-4a486b6f5bde
Slabakova, Roumyana
(2013)
Adult second language acquisition: a selective overview with a focus on the learner linguistic system.
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 3 (1), .
(doi:10.1075/lab.3.1.03sla).
Abstract
This review article selects and elaborates on the important issues of adult second language acquisition research in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The fundamental question of whether adult second language acquisition and child first language acquisition are similar or different is addressed throughout the article. The issues of a critical period for acquisition, the importance of the linguistic input, and processing are discussed. Generative as well as usage-based perspectives are considered. Future research concerns and promising areas of investigation are proposed.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 1 January 2013
Published date: February 2013
Keywords:
critical period hypothesis, generative approaches to sla, linguistic input, processing, the bilingual turn, usage-based approaches to sla
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/353331
ISSN: 1879-9264
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