W 10: Second Language Acquisition

After reading this chapter the students will be able to learn:

  • the nature and phenomena of second languag learning
  • the approaches to the study of SLA that have been heavily influenced by the field of
    linguistics since the middle of the twentieth century to the present age
  • the nature of language learning, some basic similarities and differences
    between L1 and L2 learning, and “the logical problem of language acquisition
    .

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