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Mike Long
Senior Research Scientist
Area: Second Language Acquisition
Education: - LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws), with honors, University of Birmingham, 1966
- P.G.C.E. (Post-Graduate Certificate in Education), University of London, Institute of Education, Department of English as a Foreign Language, 1970
- M.A. in Linguistics (Applied Linguistics), with distinction, University of Essex, 1974
- Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1980
Research Interests: - Epistemological issues and theory change in second language acquisition
- Age differences, maturational constraints and sensitive periods
- Second language acquisition processes, e.g. stabilization/fossilization, in interlanguage development
- Negative feedback (models and recasts) in second language acquisition
- Language aptitude
- The advanced learner
- Second language research methods
- Learner needs analysis
- Task-based language teaching
- Effects of instruction on second language acquisition
- Third language acquisition
CASL Research Projects:
Linguistic Correlates of Proficiency
Selected Publications:
Problems in SLA
Second Language Needs Analysis
Problems with supposed counter-evidence to the Critical Period Hypothesis
Variation in the linguistic profiles of advanced English-speaking learners of Korean
Second language acquisition
Español para fines especificos: Textos o tareas? [Spanish for specific purposes: Texts or tasks?]
Optimal Psycholinguistic Environments for Distance Foreign Language Learning
Optimal Psycholinguistic Environments for Distance Foreign Language Learning
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