SOCIAL FACTORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics, age, gender, ethnicity, vernaculars, multilingualism, plurilingualism.Abstract
The primary goal of this work is to provide a detailed description of target language learners who are learning English as a foreign language and various social factors, such as age, gender, race, and ethnicity, which affect their language learning process.
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