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 second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups. Top scholars from around the world synthesize current and past work, contextualize the central issues, and set the future research agenda on second language variation, including languages studied or taught less commonly. This will be an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of SLA, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in the social aspects of language learning in research practice and instruction.

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).

IntroductionKimberly Geeslin Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations in the Study of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics Variationist Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Robert Bayley and Chelsea Escalante A Sociocultural Theory Perspective on Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Variation in L2 Development Rémi A. van Compernolle Sociolinguistic Competence: What We Know So Far and Where We're Heading Matthew Kanwit Usage-based SLA: From Corpora to Social Interaction Søren Wind Eskildsen Pedagogical Norms and Standards Andrea Ender Teaching Variable Structures Stephanie M. Knouse and Laurel Hodges Abreu Testing Sociolinguistic Competence Maria Shardakova 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