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Michael
Long
Professor , SLA Program
Interests:
Maturational Constraints On Learning
Units:
Degree(s):
Doctorate Honoris Causa, 2009, Stockholm University.
Contact:
mlong5@umd.edu
301-405-4036
3124 Jimenez Hall
Role(s):
About:
Areas of interest: epistemological issues and theory change in SLA; age differences; maturational constraints and sensitive periods in SLA; SLA processes, e.g, stabilization/fossilization, interlanguage development, explicit and implicit learning, negative feedback (models and recasts) in second language acquisition; language aptitude; the advanced learner; second language research methods; foreign language needs analysis; task-based language teaching.