1. INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION • Undergraduate Course • Asst.Prof.Dr.AzamatAkbarov

2. Professor Lourdes Ortega • Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies • University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA • She is teaching SLA and L2 writing • In fall 2012, she will be joining the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington DC. • Lourdes Ortega has taught applied linguistics at the master’s and doctoral levels at Georgetown University, Georgia State University, Northern Arizona University, and presently at the University of Hawaii. Originally from Spain

3. SLA – is the scholarly field of inquiring that investigates the human capacity to learn languages other than L1 • During the childhood, adolescence or adulthood • Interdisciplinary – Language Teaching, Linguistics, Child LA, Psychology

4. Monolingual LA – Child LA, First LA • Monolingual environment – between 18 month and 3 to 4 years of age • Predictable pattern – speaking • Infants – attune to the prosodic and phonological makeup of the language