This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MvW0rOxCPHk

I read and discuss excerpts of Mike Long’s 2015 book Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching. I focus on two key topics:

1) The status of second-language acquisition (SLA) as a science

2) The Critical Period Hypothesis

In the next episode I will talk about implicit and explicit learning.

References

DeKeyser, R. M. (2000). THE ROBUSTNESS OF CRITICAL PERIOD EFFECTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 22(4): 499–533. doi:10.1017/S0272263100004022

DeKeyser, R., & Larson-Hall, J. (2005). What does the critical period really mean? In Kroll, J.F., & De Groot, A.M.B. (eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches: 88–108. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ioup, G., Boustagui, E., El Tigi, M., & Moselle, M. (1994). Re-Examining the Critical Period Hypothesis: A Case Study of Successful Adult SLA in a Naturalistic Environment. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 16: 73-98.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263100012596

Laudan, L. (1983). The Demise of the Demarcation Problem. In: Cohen, R.S., Laudan, L. (eds) Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7055-7_6

Long, M.H. (2005a). Problems with supposed counter-evidence to the critical period hypothesis. International Review of Applied Linguistics 43: 287–317.

Long, M.H. (2013a). Maturational constraints on child and adult SLA. In Granena, G., & Long, M.H. (eds.), Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment: 3-41. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.

Long, M. H. (2015). Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching. Wiley-Blackwell.

Thornton, Stephen, "Karl Popper", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2023/entries/popper/

Vanhove J. (2013). The critical period hypothesis in second language acquisition: a statistical critique and a reanalysis. PloS one, 8(7), e69172. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069172