Major Research Issues in SLA / / edited and introduced by Michael Long, with contributions by Gisela Granena, and Yucel Yilmaz.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives Series
• TeilnehmendeR: Long, Michael, 1941-; Granena, Gisela,; Yilmaz, Y.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill research perspectives.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 86 pages)

The past 50 years have witnessed achievement of a set of widely attested empirical findings on major research issues in SLA. They pertain to such matters as cross-linguistic influence; processes and sequences in interlanguage development; age effects; incidental and intentional, learning and implicit and explicit knowledge; the role of the linguistic environment and of the broader social context as sources of positive and negative evidence and of opportunities for input, interaction and output; and effects of individual differences in language aptitudes and other cognitive and affect variables. Robust findings in any scientific field constitute empirical ‘problems’ that require explanation and motivate theoretical work. In this inaugural volume of Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition , Michael Long, Gisela Granena and Yucel Yilmaz review work on a selection of these issues, and note implications of some of the work for language teaching, educational language planning, human migration, and other important matters of social concern.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Michael H. Long -- Part 1: Age Differences, Maturational Constraints, and Implicit and Explicit L2 Learning / Gisela Granena -- Part 2: The Linguistic Environment, Interaction and Negative Feedback / Yucel Yilmaz.