Courses

The study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is necessarily interdisciplinary in nature, and Georgetown's course offerings span a remarkably complete range of possible areas, largely due to our unique configuration of faculty resources. Specialists in SLA reside in departments across the university and help to provide a comprehensive selection of courses and research opportunities at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The pursuit of studies in this field can include a focus not only on the linguistic, cognitive, social, and affective variables of SLA, but also on practice: learning new languages, gaining in-depth knowledge of other cultures, and applying research findings to L2 instructional methodology.

Course Schedule

Course Catalog

Particular areas of study in the field of SLA at Georgetown University include:

• Applied cognitive linguistics
• Approaches and methologies of second language teaching
• Bilingualism
• Brain imaging and the neurobiology of SLA
• Cognitive variables in SLA
• Curriculum construction
• Development and models of interlanguage systems
• Discourse analysis, pragmatics and language teaching
• Environmental variation in SLA, including social factors
• Generative approaches to SLA
• Individual differences in SLA
• Input, interaction and SLA
• Instructed SLA
• Psycholinguistics
• Reading, writing and SLA
• Research methologies in SLA
• Second language assessment practices
• Second language classroom contexts
• SLA and the advanced learner
• Task-based language learning and teaching
• Theoretical issues in SLA