The Role of Sociolinguistics in Second Language Acquisition

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Poone Abbasi Mesrabadi ¹ , Mohammad Hashamdar ²

1 - Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch
2 - Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch

Received: 2017-09-04 Accepted : 2017-10-14 Published : 2017-12-01

Keywords: culture, social communication, speaker, linguistic variation, SLA,

Abstract :

Learning a new language also involves learning a broad system of norms for social relations.This study broadly showed how EFL learners’ speech act is conveyed from their nativecultures when they are communicating in English and demonstrated that there are somepossibilities of cross-cultural misunderstanding when interlocutors are engaged in the speechact of complimenting with native speakers of English. Interactional sociolinguistics canpresent perception into the linguistic and cultural heterogeneity traits of today’scommunicative contexts, and document its effect on people’s lives. In spite of where we live,heterogeneousness is all around us and influences much of what we do in our daily life.Politeness, linguistic gests normally present respect and care for others, is assumed to bedelicate to the social dispensation of power. Variation permeates the speech of foreignlanguage learners. The late 1960s and early 1970s proved the development of linguistics,both the quantitative study of linguistic variation pioneered by Labov (1966, 1969) and thesystematic investigation of second language acquisition (SLA), exemplified by studies suchas Cazden, Cancino, Rosansky, and Schumann (1975) and Hakuta (1976).

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