Ellis, R. (2021). A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going? Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444820000038
Key terms:
- Applied Linguistics (AL)
- in theory: linguistics in many social applications, incl. forensic linguistics, etc.
- often: applied only to language learning and teaching
- Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
≃ Foreign/Second Language Learning - Language Teaching
≃ Instructed Second Language Acquisition - Computer-Assisted Language Learning
≃ Language Learning & Technology
≃ Technology-enhanced Language Learning (and other terms) - Language Testing / Language Assessment
Differentiating academic documents
- Book
- Edited book (e.g., Handbooks)
- Chapter/section in an edited book
- Journal article
- Paper in conference proceedings
- Unpublished presentation at a conference
- Theses and dissertations
- Working papers and reports
Main journals in the field
See my List of Journals in Linguistics and Language Learning
→ Browsing journals to get an idea of the field
See also the Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS) Database.