The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics

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