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Michael

Long

Professor , SLA Program

Interests: 

Aptitude, Education, Second Language Acquisition

Maturational Constraints On Learning

Units: 

Second Language Acquisition

Degree(s): 

Doctorate Honoris Causa, 2009, Stockholm University.

Contact: 

mlong5@umd.edu

301-405-4036

3124 Jimenez Hall

Role(s): 

Alumni

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.