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Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition

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Language researchers have traditionally drawn distinctions between phenomena of “bilingualism” and the processes and features of “second language acquisition” (SLA). Accounts have generally relied upon factors of context, age of acquisition, degree of proficiency or ability, “nativeness,” or “native-likeness,” and social identity. In this chapter, I provide a cursory explanation of the potential relationship between bilingualism and SLA, pointing to the common ground between these two areas of inquiry.

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Lynch, A. (2017). Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition. In: Van Deusen-Scholl, N., May, S. (eds) Second and Foreign Language Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02246-8_5

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