Second Language Acquisition

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Second Language Acquisition.

• Interface position — A second-language-acquisition position about whether and under what conditions explicit linguistic knowledge can become or influence implicit competence.
• Near-native speaker — A second- or additional-language speaker whose everyday proficiency is difficult to distinguish from native benchmarks while fine-grained testing may reveal differences in selected linguistic domains.
• Processability theory — A second-language acquisition theory predicting developmental sequences from the hierarchy of grammatical information-processing procedures learners can execute in real time.