IDs Learning Contexts in SLA

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

Doctoral Seminar on IDs and Learning Contexts in SLA Of special interest to us in this course are the multiple interactions among internal and external factors that work together or against each other to affect L2/multilingual development. Special attention is devoted to the following topics: a) Context: immersion; traditional variables in ISLA including feedback; CALL; b. Individual differences: general cognition; aptitude, memory; motivation, anxiety; identity; c) Target: the way language development is operationalized and measured; d) Method: qualitative, quantitative, mixed; cross-sectional vs longitudinal; the issue of comparisons and the nature of control groups.