research topics about language acquisition

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1. Looking ahead: Future directions in, and future research into, second

   This article begins by situating modern-day second language acquisition (SLA) research in a historical context, tracing its evolution from cognitive to social to sociocognitive accounts. Next, the influence of the zeitgeist is considered. In this era of rapid change and turmoil, there are both perils and opportunities afforded by globalization.

2. Second-language acquisition and motivation: A literature review

   This literature review traces the development of motivation in second-language acquisition, a field that has evolved from basic associations between affective factors and second-language performance to nuanced approaches of how motivation is shaped by a learner's subjective cognition. With this review, we see that motivation's role has ...

3. 32. Factors affecting second language acquisition: Successes and

   Gass, Susan. "32. Factors affecting second language acquisition: Successes and nonsuccesses" In Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives edited by ElitzurHG Dattner and Dorit Ravid, 667-686. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018.

4. Research Methods in Language Acquisition: Principles, Procedures, and

   This chapter presents an overview of research conducted on multilingual language acquisition (i.e., third language (L3) and additional language learning) with an emphasis on its methodological design.

5. PDF Theprocess of language acquisition

   Theprocess of language acquisition. This part comprises three chapters. The first offers a panoramic view of language acquisition research.\rarious types of language acquisition are considered, some fundamental facts are stated, a number of issues which have been the focus of discussion in recent years are reviewed, and several important ...

6. Editorial: Language acquisition in diverse linguistic, social and

   This volume is the second of the Research Topic "Language acquisition in diverse linguistic, social and cognitive circumstances, " (Volume 1— Garraffa et al., 2018 ). The new

7. Editorial: New ideas in language sciences: language acquisition

   Liu provides a final investigation of non-native language acquisition, performing a bibliometric study of how scientific research on L3 acquisition—an emerging topic of inquiry in its own right (Leung, 2007)—has developed over the last decades. By looking at 425 publications from the Scopus database, it was

8. Researching Second Language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Learning

   A journal has primarily been devoted to the topic (i.e., Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acqu... Researching Second Language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Learning Environment: An Introduction for Student Researchers: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Vol 17 , No 1 - Get Access

9. Interaction Approach in Second Language Acquisition

   The interaction approach to second language acquisition posits that learners can benefit from taking part in interaction because of a variety of developmentally helpful opportunities, conditions, and processes which interaction can expose them to. These include input, negotiation, output, feedback, and attention.

10. PDF CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

    language is processed in its appropriate place, the left hemisphere of the brain. Research on language perception and processing has become very important in the field of early language acquisition as recent studies by Gerken (1994), Gerken et al. (1990), Jusczyk (1997) or Hoehle and Weissenborn (1998) show.

11. Frontiers

    Music and Early Language Acquisition. Anthony Brandt 1* Molly Gebrian 1 L. Robert Slevc 2. 1 Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. 2 Psychology, Language and Music Cognition Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Language is typically viewed as fundamental to human intelligence.

12. PDF Developmental sociolinguistics: Children's acquisition of language

    Developmental sociolinguistics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary framework that builds upon theoretical and methodological contributions from multiple disci-plines (i.e., sociolinguistics, language acquisition, the speech sciences, develop-mental psychology, and psycholinguistics).

13. An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research.

    An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research is the most comprehensive text of the field to date. The extensive bibliography, which contains both seminal and lesser known ... The order of presentation of the topics along with the comprehension and appli-cation activities at the end of each chapter facilitate involvement in and ...

14. Morpho-lexical Development in Language Acquisition

    6. articles. Lexical development is at the heart of language acquisition. In many languages, this development is inherently involved with the emergence, growth, and consolidation of morphological systematicity, which typically takes place between the ages of two and six years. Across languages, vocabulary size has been found to be the single ...

15. Research Methods in Generative Second Language Acquisition

    This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the research methods used by the Generative Second Language Acquisition framework. The authors lay out the history and state of the art in the field, explain the theoretical underpinnings of this work, and offer practical hands-on guidance for developing, conducting, and understanding studies related to L2 grammatical competence - using a ...

16. ERIC

    This paper examines the acquisition of demonstratives (e.g., "that," "there") from a cross-linguistic perspective. Although demonstratives are often said to play a crucial role in L1 acquisition, there is little systematic research on this topic. Using extensive corpus data of spontaneous child speech, the paper investigates…

17. Lingua Franca English, Multilingual Communities, and Language Acquisition

    cognition, and form in language acquisition. Research on lingua franca English (LFE) not only affirms this questioning, but reveals what multilingual communities have known all along: Language learning and use succeed through performance strategies, situational resources, and social negotiations in fluid communicative contexts.