Second language acquisition in Brazil since the social turn

Figueiredo, Eduardo Henrique Diniz de

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Articles • Rev. bras. linguist. apl. 18 (1) • Mar 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-6398201812420 copy

Second language acquisition in Brazil since the social turn

Aquisição de segunda língua no Brasil desde a virada social

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The present study is an appraisal of the literature that has been published in second language acquisition (SLA) in Brazil since what is widely known as the social turn in the field (BLOCK, 2003). The objective of such an examination is to assess the impact that the social turn has had upon SLA research in the country. One hundred forty-one texts (among articles from top-ranked journals, theses, dissertations, and books) were systematically reviewed and categorized based on three main criteria: a) main topics, b) SLA frameworks/approaches, and c) methods used. The results show that socially-guided research seems to have gained space in SLA in Brazil since the social turn; however, cognitivist work in the country is still very strong, and little dialog seems to occur among these different perspectives on SLA.

KEYWORDS:
second language acquisition; social turn; Brazil

MAIN TOPICS	Definitions
SLA theory	Theoretical issues related to SLA (e.g., a theoretical take on interlanguage; a theoretical explanation of complexity theory).
Four skills	Studies addressing at least one of the four skills (reading, speaking, listening, and/or writing), whose main focus was not teaching/learning, but the skill itself.
Instructed second language learning	Studies that look into learning that occurs in a classroom context (GASS; SELINKER, 2008GASS, S.; SELINKER, L. Second language acquisition: an introductory course. New York: Routledge, 2008.).
Psycholinguistic aspects	Studies addressing at least one psycholinguistic construct (GASS; SELINKER, 2008GASS, S.; SELINKER, L. Second language acquisition: an introductory course. New York: Routledge, 2008.) involved in SLA (e.g., attention; working memory).
Formal aspects	Studies addressing formal constructs in SLA (e.g., syntax; phonetics; phonology).
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)	Studies addressing the relationship between technology and language learning
Identity	Studies addressing perceptions of self and others in language learning
Literacy	Studies addressing the construct of literacy (broadly defined) in language learning
Others	Studies that did not fit one of the above categories, or that did not have representativeness in the data (e.g. immersion)

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