Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: LING 6810, 6170, and LING 6010 or 6020 or the equivalent.
Description
Covers issues central to any comprehensive understanding of second language acquisition (L2A): an overview of SLA research, descriptions of learner language, exploration of external and internal factors, cognitive accounts, individual differences, and instructed SLA. Proposed models of SLA are compared with respect to these central issues. Analysis of interlanguage data sets.