Mohamed Bouguara University of Boumerdes.
Faculty of Letteres and Languages.
English Department.
Linguistics: 3 rd year.
Lecturer: Dr. Boughelamallah.
Lesson7: Second language acquisition.
Language learning : SLA : second language acquisition .
Linguistics is the scientific study of language .
Second language acquisition is the subfield of linguistics that focuses on the
learning and teaching of second language .
What is language acquisition ?
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS neuroscience
first language acquisition education .
Anthropology SLA sociology
Language teaching
Language learning is used in :
-education .
-public policy .
-national security and diplomacy .
-Economy .
-Cross –cultural understanding .
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