Modernizing Education: The challenge of the European project CoMoViWo

This article will set the theoretical background on which CoMoViWo, an ongoing European project, is based. First, the article critically analyses the concept of workplace language teaching and learning and the trends followed by current workplace language programs. A second focus of research analyses the changes that affect the literacy practices required in the new working context, which imply new ways of writing, speaking, and communicating through different media. A final consideration of the article addresses the role of English as a Lingua Franca, that is, English as a language currently used as a means of communication and interaction by speakers of different first languages. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.Pérez Sabater, C.; Montero Fleta, MB.; Mac Donald Lightbound, P.; García Carbonell, A. (2015). Modernizing Education: The challenge of the European project CoMoViWo. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences. 197:1647-1652. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.214S1647165219

I English Language: section 11, Second Language Acquisition

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in "Year’s Work in English Studies" following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version "Lozano, C. I English Language: section 11, Second Language Acquisition. Year’s Work in English Studies, 92(1): 109-124 (2013)" is available online at: http://ywes.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/mat006v1?ijkey=JZOeGz0tYrkDM&keytype=ref&siteid=ywes.Applied linguistics has been traditionally understood as embracing both second language acquisition (SLA) research and second language teaching (SLT) research. SLA is a discipline that dates back to the 1970s, when research showed that learners construct their own mental grammatical representations (interlanguage grammars) worth investigating in their own right, irrespective of pedagogical concerns. This review therefore focuses on L2 (inter)language as a system and it covers child and adult L2 acquisition, with a focus on L2 English empirical studies. The general term L2 acquisition will be used to refer both to the acquisition of English as a second language (L2) in naturalistic settings and as a foreign language (EFL) in instructed settings. I will exclude other acquisition contexts, for example heritage speakers of English, third language (L3) learners of English, simultaneous child bilingualism, English first language (L1) acquisition and L1 English attrition/loss. In short, the range of studies reviewed here responds to this question: how is knowledge of the L2 interlanguage acquired (L2 acquisition) and put to use (L2 processing)