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1. Understanding Second Language Acquisition, Second Edition

   By Lourdes Ortega

   Series: Understanding Language

   Second Language Acquisition is a theoretical, experimental and fast-paced field of study which looks at, and seeks to understand, how native speakers of one language learn to speak another language fluently.Understanding Second Language Acquisition provides an approachable but authoritative...

   To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
2. Second-Language Acquisition

   Edited by Lourdes Ortega

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   Second-language acquisition was born in the late 1960s as an interdisciplinary enterprise that borrowed equally from the feeder fields of linguistics, language teaching, child language acquisition, and psychology. Since then, it has expanded considerably in scope and methodology to the point that...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
3. The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities

   By Lourdes Ortega, Heidi Byrnes

   Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

   Researchers and educators routinely call for longitudinal research on language learning and teaching. The present volume explores the connection between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities, two under-researched areas, and proposes an agenda for future research. Five chapters probe...

   Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
4. Understanding Second Language Acquisition

   By Lourdes Ortega

   Series: Understanding Language

   Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late...

   Published November 27th 2008 by Routledge