List of SLA-related topics

This is a partial list of important topics related to second language acquisition. Second language acquisition is the study of how people learn languages of which they are not native speakers.



A

*Absolute universal
*Accessibility Hierarchy
*Acculturation Model
*Acquisition
*Adaptive control of thought
*Additional language
*Additive bilingualism
*Affective state
*Analytical strategy
*Anomie
*Anxiety
*Applied linguistics:
**Applied corpus linguistics
*Aptitude-treatment interaction
*Attention-Processing Model
*Avoidance

B
*Backsliding (see also language attrition)
*Balanced bilingualism
*Basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS)
*Behaviorism
*Ellen Bialystok
*Bilingualism

C
*Capability
*Careful style
*Caretaker talk
*Casual style
*Change from above
*Channel capacity
*Classroom process and classroom process research
*Closed question
*Code-switching
*Cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP)
*Cognitive strategies
*Cognitive style
*Communicative competence
*Communicative strategy
*Comparative method study
*Competence
*Competition Model
*Comprehensible input
*Comprehensible output hypothesis, see Output Hypothesis
*Concatenative research
*Consciousness raising
*
*Contrastive analysis
*Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
*Conversation analysis
*Correction
*Creative construction
*Creole
*Critical Period Hypothesis
*Cross-linguistic influence

D
*Debilitative anxiety
*Declarative L2 knowledge (see also declarative knowledge)
*Descriptive adequacy
*Developmental feature
*Developmental pattern
*Developmental sequence
*Discourse
**Discourse analysis
**Discourse completion questionnaire
**Discourse management
**Discourse repair
*Display question

E
*Educational setting
*Elaborative simplification
*Rod Ellis
*English language learning and teaching
*Error
**Error analysis
**Error evaluation
**Error gravity
**Error treatment
*Ethnography
*Explanatory adequacy
*Explicit L2 knowledge, see also explicit knowledge
*Externalized approach or E-approach
*Extroversion

F
*Facilitating anxiety
*Facilitation
*Feedback
*Field dependence
*Field independence
*Foreigner talk
*Foreign language acquisition
*Formal instruction
*Form-function analysis
*Formulaic speech
*Fossilization
*Fragile features
*Free variation
*Frequency analysis
*Frequency hypothesis
*Functionalist model

G
*Gestalt strategy
*Global error
*Good language learner
*Gradual diffusion model
*Grammatical competence
*Grammaticality judgments
*Grammaticalization
*Grammar

H
*Hierarchical research
*Horizontal variation
*Hypercorrection
*Hypocorrection
*Hypothesis-testing

I
*Identity Hypothesis
*Ignorance Hypothesis
*Implicational scaling
*Implicit L2 knowledge, see also implicit knowledge
*Impression management
*Incorporation strategy
*Indicator
*Individual learner differences
*Induced error
*Inner-directed learner
*Input Hypothesis
*Instructed language acquisition
*Instrumental motivation
*Intake
*Integrative motivation
*Interaction
**Interaction analysis
**Interactional act
**Interactional modification
**Interactionist learning theory
*Interdependency principle
*Interface position
*Interference
*Inter-group theory
*Interlanguage
**Interlanguage talk
**Interlanguage pragmatics
*Internalized approach
*Interphonology
*Inter-speaker variation
*Intralingual error
*Intra-speaker variation

K
*Kinesics
*Stephen Krashen

L
*Language acquisition (focusing on first language learning)
**Language Acquisition Device
*Language anxiety
*Language attrition
*Language education
*Language ego
*Language learning aptitude
*Language transfer
*Learner-instruction matching
*Learner strategy
*Learning
**Learning strategy
**Learning style
*Lingua franca
*Linguistic competence
*Linguistic context
*Linguistic universals
*Local errors
*Logical problem of language acquisition
*Michael H. Long

M
*Machiavellian motivation
*Markedness
**Markedness Differential Hypothesis
*Marker
*Mentalist theories of language learning
*Message abandonment
*Metacognitive strategy
*Metalingual knowledge
*Micro-Momentary Expression test
*Mistake
*Modality reduction
*Monitoring
*Monitor Theory
*Monolingualism
*Morpheme studies
*Motivation
*Multidimensional Model
*Multilingualism

N
*Paul Nation
*Natural setting
*Naturalistic language acquisition
*Negative evidence
*Negative transfer, see interference
*Negotiation of meaning
*Negotiation Hypothesis
*Non-interface position
*Noticing
*Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy

O
*Obligatory occasion analysis
*Observer's Paradox
*Open question
*Operant conditioning
*Operating principle
*Order of acquisition
*Other-directed learner
*Output Hypothesis
*Overgeneralization
*Over-use
*Rebecca Oxford

P
*Parallel Distributed Processing
*Parameter
**Parameter-setting Model
*Pattern
**Pattern of development
*Performance
*Pied piping
*Planned discourse
*Positive transfer
*Poverty of the stimulus
*Pramalinguistics
**Pragmalinguistic failure
*Pragmatics
**Pragmatic competence
*Preposition stranding
*Principle
*Private speech
*Proactive inhibition
*Procedural knowledge
*Production strategy
*Proficiency
*Projection capacity
*Prototypicality
*Proxemics
*Pseudo-question
*Psycholinguistic context
*Psychological distance
*Psychotypology

R
*Recreation continuum
*Reference group
*Referential question
*Resilient feature
*Restrictive simplification
*Restructuring
**Restructuring continuum
*Reticence
*Routine

S
*John H. Schumann
*Second language
**Second language acquisition
*Selective attention hypothesis
*Semantic simplification
*Semilingualism
*Sequence of development
*Silent period
*Situational context
*Situation-specific anxiety
*Skill-building Hypothesis
*Social-affective strategy
*Social distance
*Social-educational Model of L2 Learning
*Sociolinguistic variables
*Sociopragmatics
**Sociopragmatic failure
*Speech Accommodation Theory
*Speech act
*Speech planning
*State anxiety
*Earl Stevick
*Strategic competence
*Structural simplification
*Style shifting
*Stylistic continuum
*Submersion
*Subtractive bilingualism
*Substratum transfer
*Merrill Swain
*Systematic forgetting
*Systematicity

T
*Target language
*Target-like use analysis
*Task-induced variation
*Teachability hypothesis
*Teacher talk
*Think-aloud tasks
*Tolerance of ambiguity
*Trait anxiety
*Transfer errors
*Transitional constructions
*Tutor talk
*Typological universals

U
*U-shaped behavior
*Universal grammar
*Unplanned discourse
*Usage
*Use

V
*Variability Hypothesis
*Variable Competence Model
*Variable form
*Variants
*Variational feature
*Vernacular style
*Vertical construction
*Vertical variation
*Dr.
*Lev Vygotsky

W
*Wave Theory
*Westerners learning Chinese
*Wild grammar

Z
*Zone of Proximal Development
 
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