SLA AND SLA-RELATED FIELDS

• SECOND LANGUAGE (L2) ACQUISITION

– Focus on the acquisition of language learning and teaching
(In and out the classroom)
Second Language Foreign language

– Research is concerned with the process by which people

acquire second languages and use them in everyday life
• Development throughout life and bilingualism

– Focuses on the learner

• FOREIGN LANGUAGE (FL) EDUCATION
– Research focused on the schooling process T-Teach S-Learn
• How they acquire foreign literacy skills
– Inquires into the cognitive, social and institutional
dimensions of language instruction
• Related to curriculum, the address questions of diversity,
articulations between levels, standardization of teaching, syllabus
design
– Seeks to identify learner, teacher and curricular variables
to contribute to second language learning

• FOREIGN LANGUAGE METHODOLOGY

– Engaged in developing the most effective way to teach FLs
– The kind of research is more performative kind
• Best way to motivate, how to organize groups, how to teach a
grammar topic effectively
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
– Interdisciplinary field of research for the study of all
aspects of language use
– The field includes:
• L1 – L2 Acquisition and SLA- Related fields
• Communication in the professions
• Language and the media
• Translation and interpretation What brings them
• Stylistics all together under
• Discourse and conversational analysis the same roof?
• Sing language research

Focus on relationship
Psycho-Sociolinguistic
theory and social
practice