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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Teaching, 2015
As applied linguists know very well, how we use language both constructs and reflects our understanding. It is therefore important that we use terms that do justice to our concerns. In this presentation, I suggest that a more apt designation than "multilingual" or "second language acquisition" (SLA) is "multilingual"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Multilingualism, Bilingualism
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Wen, Zhisheng; Biedron, Adriana; Skehan, Peter – Language Teaching, 2017
Foreign language (FL) aptitude generally refers to a specific talent for learning a foreign or second language (L2). After experiencing a long period of marginalized interest, FL aptitude research in recent years has witnessed renewed enthusiasm across the disciplines of educational psychology, second language acquisition (SLA) and cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Educational Psychology
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Anton, Marta – Language Teaching, 2011
This review presents a broad picture of recent work on L2 Spanish in educational contexts. The thematic and geographic scope of the review is wide, in order to capture the diversity of learners and learning contexts of L2 Spanish, just two decades after teaching and learning the language gained impetus worldwide. Traditional second or foreign…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Wright, Tony – Language Teaching, 2010
Second language teacher education (SLTE) has undergone considerable change over the past 25 years. The question of how language teaching is learnt and how programmes of professional preparation can contribute to this process now elicits quite different answers. A new agenda of theory and practice has emerged as SLTE has incorporated many of the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes
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Eckerth, Johannes; Tschirner, Erwin – Language Teaching, 2010
This review of research on the learning, teaching, and assessment of L2 German may be particularly timely due to developments from within the profession as well as recent political changes which continue to have a strong bearing on the way L2 German is promoted, learned, taught and assessed. Far from representing an isolated field of research…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, German, Literature Reviews, Educational Assessment
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Eckerth, Johannes; Schramm, Karen; Tschirner, Erwin – Language Teaching, 2009
This review of research on the learning, teaching, and assessment of L2 German published or completed between 2002 and 2008 may be particularly timely due to developments from within the profession as well as recent political changes which continue to have a strong bearing on the way L2 German is promoted, learned, taught and assessed. Far from…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Applied Linguistics, Learning Processes, German