Understanding Second Language Acquisition Ortega Lourdes
Understanding Second Language Acquisition Ortega Lourdes Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage…
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Understanding Second Language Acquisition Ortega Lourdes
Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired.
The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second