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Second language acquisition

Here are entered works which discuss the social and psychological processes involved in learning a second language. Works which discuss the study and teaching of a second or foreign language are entered under the heading Language and languages -- Study and teaching.

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• Language acquisition

• Second language acquisition -- Periodicals

• Second language learning

• Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Journal of the European Second Language Association (2017-) (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Roots of Language (originally published 1981; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Derek Bickerton (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)
• Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Y. Tobin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2003; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2005), ed. by Andrea Tyler, Mari Takada, Yiyoung Kim, and Diana Marinova (PDF at Georgetown)
• Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition: Theory, Practice, and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1993; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1993), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by Stephen D. Krashen, Catherine Snow, Anna Uhl Chamot, J. Michael O'Malley, Cecily O'Neill, Deryn P. Verity, Shōkō Okazaki, Catherine Doughty, Ruth M. Jackson, Joan Morley, Karin C. Ryding, Suzanne Flynn, Elahe Mir-Djalali, James P. Lantolf, Ahmed Mouakket, Traute Taeschner, Jo Ann Crandall, Ikuo Koike, Louis A. Arena, Irene Thompson, Frederick J. Bosco, William Frawley, Madeline Elizabeth Ehrman, Virginia Mayer, Earl W. Stevick, Christina Kakava, Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, Reinhold Freudenstein, Aoi Tsuda, Josep Maria Artigal, Phyllis J. Dragonas, Marcel Danesi, Frederick H. Jackson, H. Douglas Brown, Dieter Kastovsky, Masaki Oda, Rebecca L. Oxford, Jeanette S. DeCarrico, James R. Nattinger, Anita Wenden, Linda S. Rutledge, and Jill Robbins (PDF at Georgetown)
• Developmental Psycholinguistics: Theory and Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1975; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1975), ed. by Daniel P. Dato (PDF at Georgetown)
• Educational Linguistics, Crosscultural Communication, and Global Interdependence (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1994), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)

• Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition and Change (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), ed. by Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joe Salmons (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF wih commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN