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This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors' role in second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups. Top scholars from around the world synthesize current and past work, contextualize the central issues, and set the future research agenda on second language variation, including languages studied or taught less commonly. This will be an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of SLA, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in the social aspects of language learning in research practice and instruction.
List of contents
IntroductionKimberly Geeslin
Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations in the Study of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics
- Variationist Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Robert Bayley and Chelsea Escalante
- A Sociocultural Theory Perspective on Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Variation in L2 Development
Rémi A. van Compernolle
- Sociolinguistic Competence: What We Know So Far and Where We're Heading
Matthew Kanwit
- Usage-based SLA: From Corpora to Social Interaction
Søren Wind Eskildsen
- Pedagogical Norms and Standards
Andrea Ender
- Teaching Variable Structures
Stephanie M. Knouse and Laurel Hodges Abreu
- Testing Sociolinguistic Competence
Maria Shardakova
- Social and Cultural Considerations in Curriculum Design
D. Victoria Rau
Part II: Sociolinguistic Factors and Their Role in Second Language Acquisition
9. Social Networks
Kristen Kennedy Terry
10. Regional Variation
Lauren B. Schmidt, Bret Linford, and Stephen Fafulas
11. Salience
Julia Davydova
12. Style and (In)formality: Developing Socio-stylistic Variation in a Second Language
Martin Howard
13. Socially Driven Second Language Pronunciation
Elena Schoonmaker-Gates
14. Connecting Language Change with Second Language Acquisition
Bryan Donaldson
Part III: Tools for Research on Second Language Sociolinguistics
15. Studying Sociophonetics in Second Languages
Ksenia Gnevsheva
16. Variationist Methods of Analysis
Katherine Rehner and Raymond Mougeon
17. Measuring Language Attitudes
Erik Schleef
18. Eliciting Variable Structures Across Tasks
Aarnes Gudmestad
19. Measuring Individual Differences: A Look at Working Memory
Sara L. Zahler
20. Artificial Language Learning Methods as a Tool for Sociolinguistic Research
Anna Samara
21.
Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis
Hanh thi Nguyen and Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen
Part IV: Learner Populations and Learning Contexts
22. Language Learners and Service-learning
Francisco Salgado-Robles and Gregory L. Thompson
23. Study Abroad
Angela George
24. Postmodern Classroom Language Learning
Dick Smakman
25. Immersion Learners
Rebecca Lurie Starr
26. The Sociolinguistics of Heritage Language Education
Jennifer Leeman and Rachel Showstack
27. Additional Language Learning in the Context of Indigenous Language Reclamation
Megan Lukaniec and Kayla Palakurthy
Part V: Language-specific Research on Second Language Sociolinguistics
28. Sociolinguistic Research vs. Language Ideology in L2 Arabic
Khaled Al Masaeed
29. Sociolinguistics and the Acquisition of Chinese as a Second and Heritage Language: The State of the Field
Xiaoshi Li, Robert Bayley, and Xinye Zhang
30. The Acquisition of English L2 Sociolinguistic Variation
Jette G. Hansen Edwards
31. Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistic Approaches: The Case of L2 French
Vera Regan
32. Language-Specific Research on Second Language Sociolinguistics in Spanish
Megan Solon and Rebecca Pozzi
33. Uncommonly Studied Language Pairs
Avizia Long
About the author
Kimberly Geeslin is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. Her research focuses on the second language acquisition of the geographic, social and situationally variable properties of Spanish. She is co-author of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Routledge, 2014) and The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language (Routledge, 2021).
Summary
This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors? role in SLA through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups.
