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A research-rich yet accessible introduction to the field that investigates late bi/multilingualism, or the human capacity for learning new (second, foreign, heritage) languages later in life, in addition to the languages learned in early childhood.
List of contents
Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. AgeChapter 3. Crosslinguistic influencesChapter 4. The linguistic environmentChapter 5. CognitionChapter 6. Development of learner languageChapter 7. Foreign language aptitudeChapter 8. MotivationChapter 9. Affect and other individual differencesChapter 10. Social dimensions of L2 learning
About the author
Lourdes Ortega is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her main area of research is in second language acquisition, particularly sociocognitive and educational dimensions in adult classroom settings. In her research, she applies insights from bilingualism and from usage-based linguistics to the investigation of second language development. She has also long-standing interests in second language writing and foreign language education and has published widely about systematic research synthesis and epistemological and ethical dimensions of second language acquisition research. She was co-recipient of the Pimsleur and the TESOL Research awards and has been a doctoral Mellon fellow, a postdoctoral Spencer/National Academy of Education fellow, and a senior research fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies. Her publications include the book
Understanding Second Language Acquisition (1
st edition with Hodder, 2009; 2
nd revised edition with Routledge, 2014). She has served/serves as area editor for "Language Learning and Teaching" for the
Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2012), editor of
Language Learning (2010-2015), and as editorial board member on several journals.
Summary
A research-rich yet accessible introduction to the field that investigates late bi/multilingualism, or the human capacity for learning new (second, foreign, heritage) languages later in life, in addition to the languages learned in early childhood.
