Year | definition | source |
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2003 | "... encompasses basic and applied work on the acquisition and loss of second (third, etc.) languages and dialects by children and adults, learning naturalistically and/or with the aid of formal instruction, as individuals or in groups, in foreign, second language,and lingua franca settings " | Doughty, C.J. & Long, M.H. (2003, p.3) |
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... refers to the subconscious or conscious processes by which a language other than the mother tongue is learnt in a natural or tutored setting. | Ellis, R. (1985, p.6) |
A second reason for the imminent failure of minimum standards programs that ignore aliteracy is that such programs fail to anticipate the vicious circle of adults who don't choose to read in turn creating children who read and don't choose to read. | ERIC (0) |