Terms for Second Language Acquisition
As ESL students who should be familiar with Second Language Acquisition (SLA), you frequently hear specific terms such as first language or mother tongue, second language, additional language, bilinguals, target language, and other specific terms that you need to know and understand in order to comprehend readings and texts in the field of SLA. This page is dedicated to help ESL learners understand specific terms in the field of SLA with fun.
After learning these terms using online "flashcards" mode, and knowing how to spell those terms using "spell" mode, you can check your comprehension using "test" and "match" mode.
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Let's learn specific terms of SLA (Part 1)
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All terms presented in this page are taken from Saville-Troike, M. (2011). Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press: UK
