miércoles, 26 de octubre de 2011



Second language acquisition (SLA) is a complex and multi-disciplinary field encompassing various domains such as linguistics, socio-linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, sociology and education (Ellis, 1994; Gass and Selinker, 2008).
To learn a second language can be very hard and difficult. It takes time where we get involved for whole life and really have to study in order to develop. However, there are many reasons to learn a second language, for instance to be able to communicate with foreigners and to understand other languages, but also to be able to get more work opportunities depending on your language knowledge.
To know more languages always looks good on our CV when we apply for a job.
It could be argued that people who study a second language (L2) often learn it because they have to do it in school, but people also sometimes need languages for other reasons, for example work opportunities or simply because they want to understand foreigners.
But what is a Second Language? When we were young we learnt our first language, L1, that is, our mother tongue. When we learn an additional language, this language is called L2, i.e. our second language.  A second language can also be called a target language (TL), the language we aim to learn, and once we have learnt it, it is no longer a target language.



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