second language acquisition
Gaining another tongue
Second language acquisition is the process of learning a language other than one's native tongue.
The term appears most often in academic contexts, where researchers study how people develop competence in new languages—whether through formal instruction, immersion, or natural exposure.
Her research focuses on second language acquisition in young children.
Often abbreviated SLA.
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- working memoryTemporary cognitive holding space
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- motivationImpetus toward a goal
morphology · sociolinguistics · identity · pragmatics · syntax · acculturation · code switching · immersion · study abroad · error correction · fossilization · interlanguage · social interaction · accuracy · automatization · semantics · transfer · foreign accent
- linguisticslinguistics, phoneme, phonemes, morpheme, morphemes
- Greek languageGreek alphabet, alpha, Greek vocabulary, beta, gamma
- teacher educationstudent teaching, teacher certification, teacher prep, teacher education, teacher preparation
- Romance linguisticsGallo-Romance, Italian, Spanish, Latin roots, Latin influence