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).