The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics

This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors' role in SLA through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups.

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Kimberly Geeslin is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. Her research focuses on the second language acquisition of the geographic, social and situationally variable properties of Spanish. She is co-author of Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Routledge, 2014) and The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language (Routledge, 2021).

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IntroductionKimberly Geeslin

Part I: **Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations in the Study of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics

1. Variationist Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Robert Bayley and Chelsea Escalante

2. A Sociocultural Theory Perspective on Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Variation in L2 Development Rémi A. van Compernolle

3. Sociolinguistic Competence: What We Know So Far and Where We're Heading Matthew Kanwit

4. Usage-based SLA: From Corpora to Social Interaction Søren Wind Eskildsen

5. Pedagogical Norms and Standards Andrea Ender

6. Teaching Variable Structures Stephanie M. Knouse and Laurel Hodges Abreu

7. Testing Sociolinguistic Competence Maria Shardakova

8. Social and Cultural Considerations in Curriculum Design

   D. Victoria Rau
   Part II: Sociolinguistic Factors and Their Role in Second Language Acquisition

9. Social Networks

Kristen Kennedy Terry

10. Regional Variation

Lauren B. Schmidt, Bret Linford, and Stephen Fafulas

11. Salience

Julia Davydova

12. Style and (In)formality: Developing Socio-stylistic Variation in a Second Language

Martin Howard

13. Socially Driven Second Language Pronunciation

Elena Schoonmaker-Gates

14. Connecting Language Change with Second Language Acquisition

Bryan Donaldson

Part III: Tools for Research on Second Language Sociolinguistics

15. Studying Sociophonetics in Second Languages

Ksenia Gnevsheva

16. Variationist Methods of Analysis

Katherine Rehner and Raymond Mougeon

17. Measuring Language Attitudes

Erik Schleef

18. Eliciting Variable Structures Across Tasks

Aarnes Gudmestad

19. Measuring Individual Differences: A Look at Working Memory

Sara L. Zahler

20. Artificial Language Learning Methods as a Tool for Sociolinguistic Research

Anna Samara

21. **Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis

Hanh thi Nguyen and Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen

Part IV: Learner Populations and Learning Contexts

22. Language Learners and Service-learning

Francisco Salgado-Robles and Gregory L. Thompson

23. Study Abroad

Angela George

24. Postmodern Classroom Language Learning

Dick Smakman

25. Immersion Learners

Rebecca Lurie Starr

26. The Sociolinguistics of Heritage Language Education

Jennifer Leeman and Rachel Showstack

27. Additional Language Learning in the Context of Indigenous Language Reclamation

Megan Lukaniec and Kayla Palakurthy

Part V: Language-specific Research on Second Language Sociolinguistics

28. Sociolinguistic Research vs. Language Ideology in L2 Arabic

Khaled Al Masaeed

29. Sociolinguistics and the Acquisition of Chinese as a Second and Heritage Language: The State of the Field

Xiaoshi Li, Robert Bayley, and Xinye Zhang

30. The Acquisition of English L2 Sociolinguistic Variation

Jette G. Hansen Edwards

31. Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistic Approaches: The Case of L2 French

Vera Regan

32. Language-Specific Research on Second Language Sociolinguistics in Spanish

Megan Solon and Rebecca Pozzi

33. Uncommonly Studied Language Pairs

Avizia Long