Language Acquisition

• Foreign Language: a language not widely used in the learner's immediate social context
• Formal Learning: learning that takes place in classrooms
• Social psychologist: emphasizes group-related phenomena such as identity and social motivation
• Target: the aim or goal of learning in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
• English for academic purpose: language functions that focus on narrowly set of occupation-specific uses and functions
• Linguist: distinguishes categories of learners defined by the identity and relationship of L1 and L2
• Psycholinguists: emphasize the mental or cognitive processes involved in language acquisition
• Sequential multilingualism: learning additional languages after L1 has already been established
• Informal Learning: learning that takes place in a natural context
• Library Language: a tool for further learning through reading, especially when books are not commonly published in the native language
• First language: the process of learning a language subsequent to the learner's first language
• Second Language: an official or societal dominant language needed for education and employment
• Linguistic competence: the underlying knowledge of a language
• Auxiliary Language: a language needed for some official function in political differences
• Simultaneous: acquisition of more than one language during early childhood
• Linguistic performance: the actual production of language