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Meaning of second language in English

(Definition of second language from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of second language

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Moreover, these findings have implications for the development of fluency that could be applicable to adult second language learning, her primary focus of interest.
Yet despite this complexity, people who study and practice a second language eventually manage to speak and understand it.
Unmarked structures and emergent rankings in second language phonology.
Current approaches to researching second language learner processes.
These approaches have the potential to contribute to our understanding of how learners learn a second language, and, therefore, how this task may be facilitated.
This study examined the effects of acoustic variability on second language vocabulary learning.
This paper looks at the notion of future shock as it becomes instantiated in language and interaction in a reading lesson with second language learners.
Creating a self-rating instrument for second language writing: from idea to implementation.
Students' and teachers' perceptions about strategies which promote proficiency in second language writing.
In the words of a reviewer of the book, it 'makes a powerful case for "ethnomethodological re-specification" in second language research'.
Non-foreign-accented speech in adult second language learners: does it exist and what does it signify?
Form-meaning mapping in vocabulary acquisition in a second language.
Learning simple and complex second language rules under implicit, incidental, rule-search, and instructed conditions.
Chapters 1 and 2 clearly situate stimulated recall in the context of introspective research in second language acquisition.
Acquiring linking rules and argument structures in a second language.
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Translations of second language

in Chinese (Traditional)
第二語言…
in Chinese (Simplified)
第二语言…
in Spanish
segunda lengua…
in Portuguese
segunda língua…
in more languages
in Polish
in Turkish
in Russian
drugi język…
ikinci dil…
второй язык…
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