List of SLA-related topics

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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.

[edit] 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

[edit] B

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

[edit] 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
• Context
• Contrastive analysis
• Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
• Conversation analysis
• Correction
• Creative construction
• Creole
• Critical Period Hypothesis
• Cross-linguistic influence

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] G

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

[edit] H

• Hierarchical research
• Horizontal variation
• Hypercorrection
• Hypocorrection
• Hypothesis-testing

[edit] 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

[edit] K

• Kinesics
• Stephen Krashen

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] R

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] U

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

[edit] V

• Variability Hypothesis
• Variable Competence Model
• Variable form
• Variants
• Variational feature
• Vernacular style
• Vertical construction
• Vertical variation
• Lev Vygotsky

[edit] W

• Wave Theory
• Westerners learning Chinese
• Wild grammar

[edit] Z

• Zone of Proximal Development

[edit] References

• Ellis, R.. The study of second language acquisition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-437189-1.
• Brown, H.D.. Principles of language learning and teaching, 4th ed.. Longman. ISBN 0-13-017816-0.

[edit] See also

• Applied linguistics
• Education
• List of language teaching methods