Second Language Acquisition and Lifelong Learning | Linguistics

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Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans as members of society and as individuals. As we go through life our relationship with language and with learning shifts and changes but it remains significant. This book is an up-to-date resource for graduate students and researchers in second language (L2) acquisition who are interested in language learning across the lifespan. The main goal is to survey and evaluate what is known about the linguistic-cognition-affect associations that occur in L2 learning from birth through senescence (passing through the stages of childhood adolescence adulthood and third age) the extent to which L2 acquisition may be seen as contributing to h…