Introduction: recent developments in SLA DOI:10.5007/2175-8026.2011n60p009
Mailce Borges Mota · Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies · 2011
throughout the history of the Program, second/foreign language acquisition/learning (SLA) has been an active field of research: in the general context of the line of research "Learning and Teaching", once called "Second Language Acquisition", the theses and dissertations presented in the area have dealt with the main issues discussed in the national and international scenarios and have done so from a variety of conceptual approaches and research methods.It is, thus, possible to find, among the many studies carried out in the past four decades, research on a variety of themes, including contrastive analysis, error analysis, interaction, grammar acquisition, effects of instruction, interlanguage phonology, speech production, and classroom processes.