SLA for the 21st Century
Disciplinary Progress, Transdisciplinary Relevance, and the Bi/multilingual Turn
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lourdes Ortega (0000-0003-4533-6547, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | s1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00735.x |
| OpenAlex | W1889709078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 108 |
| References cited | 77 |
The goals of this article are to appraise second language acquisition's (SLA) disciplinary progress over the last 15 years and to reflect on transdisciplinary relevance as the field has completed 40 years of existence and moves forward into the 21st century. I first identify four trends that demonstrate vibrant disciplinary progress in SLA. I then turn to the notion of transdisciplinarity, or the proclivity to pursue and generate SLA knowledge that can be of use outside the confines of the field and contribute to overall knowledge about the human capacity for language. I propose an understanding of transdisciplinary relevance for SLA that results from the ability: (a) to place one's field in a wider landscape of disciplines that share an overarching common goal and (b) to develop critical awareness of one's disciplinary framings of object of inquiry and goals and others' likely reception of them. Finally, I argue that it is by reframing SLA as the study of late bi/multilingualism that the remarkable progress witnessed in the last 15 years will help the field reach new levels of transdisciplinary relevance as a contributor to the study of the ontogeny of human language and a source of knowledge in support of language education in the 21st century
Cognitive reframing · Discipline · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Interdisciplinarity · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Relevance (law) · Second-language acquisition · Social science · Sociology · Transdisciplinarity · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology
Members and their competencies
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Foreign Language Aptitude and Its Relationship with Grammar
Hybridity
Multilingual Socialization and Education in Non-Western Settings
The Acquisition of Heritage Languages
Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic Transfer
Global Englishes for Language Teaching
SLA and the Study of Equitable Multilingualism
The Impact of Global English on Motivation to Learn Other Languages
Translanguaging and the Transdisciplinary Framework for Language Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual World
Vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary use in writing
Linguistic and Geographic Diversity in Research on Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism
Expanding the horizons of age-related research
Tense in Speakers of English as a Contact Language
Can a sociolinguistic perspective of Second Language Acquisition solve ‘the longstanding human curiosity’ of learning languages
Atitudes Pedagógicas De Professores Universitários De Inglês Em Meio À Proliferação De Acrônimos Para a Língua Inglesa
Bilingual heritage language learning in China
More than a game
Dismantling Persistent Deficit Narratives About the Language and Literacy of Culturally and Linguistically Minoritized Children and Youth
Moving Beyond the Native-Speaker Bias in the Analysis of Variable Gender Marking
Significance of L2 and L3 Motivation in the Context of an English-Taught Program
Variational Learning in Child L2 Acquisition? Comprehension of Verbal Agreement in Spanish and English
Research into multilingual issues in Ecec contexts
The multilingual poetry task
Translingual competence and study abroad
Language teacher education in diversity – a consideration of the mediating role of languages and cultures in student learning
Analysing Transdisciplinary Education
Variability in native and nonnative language
EFL teachers’ agency in Spanish preschools
Experience-based individual differences modulate language, mind and brain outcomes in multilinguals
Exploring Evolving Motivation to Learn Two Languages Simultaneously in a Study‐Abroad Context
Consequences of the comparative fallacy for the acquisition of grammatical aspect in Spanish
Finding our Role
Reaching out to the other side
Against English domination in educational contexts
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in late bilingualism
To postpone or not to postpone? Examining access policy on early foreign language learning from second language acquisition and language planning and policy perspectives
Effects of willingness to communicate on L2 output and leadership roles during jury discussions
“English is a mishmash of everything”
Monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism
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Analyzing the curricularization of language in two-way immersion education
Beyond ‘two-solitudes’ assumption and monolingual idealism
Linguistics in the service of communication disorders
Applications in applied linguistics
Transdisciplinarity across two-tiers
Telecollaboration In Japanese Among Spanish And Finnish Students
On the predicaments of the E nglish L 1 language learner
Class discussion as a site for fostering symbolic competence in translation classrooms
Between the standard and non-standard
Exploring engagement of users of Global Englishes in a community of inquiry
Language teachers’ attitudes towards English in a multilingual setting
The role of frequency in the acquisition of structured variation
Responding to sociolinguistic change
Assessing CLIL
Grappling with translanguaging for teaching and assessment in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts
The pertinence and feasibility of implementing a plurilingual approach in Quebec, Canada
The critical awakening of a pre-service teacher in a Spanish graduate program
The Role of Language Learning Progressions in Improved Instruction and Assessment of English Language Learners
Learning Unacceptability
Dialect-Specific Modes Influence Second Language Production
Proactive Language Learning Theory
Timed vs. untimed lexicosemantic judgement task for measuring automatized phonological vocabulary knowledge
Learning to predict
When labeling L2 users as nativelike or not, consider classification errors
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years
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Essentials of a Theory of Language Cognition
Cultural-Specific Lexis for Intercultural Communication
An Exploratory Study of Chinese College EFL Teachers’ Multilingual Awareness
Progressive aspect across temporalities
From reluctant multilingualism to strategic translanguaging
What counts as participation in the language classroom? A critical inquiry
How agentic engagement relates to basic psychological needs and teachers’ motivating styles
How does language learning contribute to individual growth in a multilingual world? A systematic review
Making all repertoires count
Multilingualism in today's language classrooms
The role of metalinguistic knowledge in third-language development among heritage and late bilinguals
Replication in Second Language Research
Fairness, justice, and criticality
The trends and developments of L2 Japanese research in the 2010s
Multilingualism in older age
Just learning
Language socialization and academic discourse in English as a Foreign Language contexts
The role of pointing gestures and eye gaze in second language vocabulary learning
Learning languages in a globalized world
Exploring complex multilingual motivation types among Chinese students majoring in dual foreign languages
Exploring the role of English in meritocracy in multilingual Indonesia
Examining a multilingual learner's pair dynamics and translanguaging during collaborative writing tasks in a task-supported L3 classroom
Foreign language anxiety in Turkey
Defining ‘native speaker’ in multilingual settings
Developing Mutual Intelligibility and Conviviality in the 21st Century Classroom
To What Extent Does Long‐Term Foreign Language Education Help Improve Spoken Second Language Lexical Proficiency
Foregrounding learner voice
Reconsidering the Social in Language Learning
Generative AI for the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment of Productive Skills
Rethinking Global Englishes and Moving toward Reparative Redress for Language‐Minoritized and Racialized Tesol Practitioners
L2 interpretation of quantifier scope
AI in the Foreign Language Classroom
Language Attrition
Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning
Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Effects of the Second Language on the First
A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development
Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency
Language Learning and Study Abroad
A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action
Bilingual First Language Acquisition
The Language of Schooling
Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching
Interlanguage
Bilingualism, Heritage Language Learners, and SLA Research
Sequencing in SLA
Input, Interaction, and Second‐language Acquisition
Different Bodies, Different Minds
The Evolving Context of the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis
Second Dialect Acquisition
Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Second-Language Acquisition, Social Interaction, and the Classroom
Individual differences in child English second language acquisition
The multilingual turn
The initial stages of first-language acquisition begun in adolescence
Ideology
Maturation
Methodological challenges of transdisciplinary research
The acquisition and use of German in a dialect-speaking environment
Neuroimaging and research into second language acquisition
Psycholinguistic techniques in second language acquisition research
Language acquisition without Universal Grammar
Beyond form-focused instruction
Teenagers’ acquisition of variation
Key terms in second language acquisition
Contemporary applied linguistics
Tutorials in Bilingualism
Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
Acquiring a Variable Structure
Chaos/Complexity Science and Second Language Acquisition
On Discourse, Communication, and (Some) Fundamental Concepts in SLA Research
Maturational Constraints and First Language Attrition
The Contribution of Second Language Acquisition Research
Expanding the Role of Connectionism in SLA Theory
Evidence for Multicompetence
English Language Learners and Academic Achievement
Relearning in the Elderly
Socio-Interactive Practices and Personality in Adult Learners of English With Little Formal Education
L2 Negation Constructions at Work
Current emergentist and nativist perspectives on second language acquisition
The syntax of conversation in interlanguage development
The Comparative Fallacy in Interlanguage Studies
| Unique citing works | 108 |
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| Citations per year | 8,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 106 |