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1.Introduction:describing and explaining L2 acquisitiona.What is Second language acquisition?Its emergence is no accident. This has been a time of the global village and the World wide Web. As never before ,people have had to learn a second language ,not just as a pleasing pastime ,but often as a means of obtaining an education of securing employment.Second can refer to any language that is learned subsequent to the mother tongue. It can refer to the third or fourth language.Also, second is not intended to contrast with foreign. so L2 acquisition can be defined as the way in which people learn a language other than their mother tongue ,inside or outside of a classroom.Second Language Acquisition is the study of L2 acquisition.b.What are the goal of SLA?Some approaches for you to set about finding how the learners acquire an L2:1.ask the learners how they did it .This approach has provided some valuable insights but it is limited in that learners are not aware of the actual learning process they engaged in2.collecting samples of learner language that learners produce and analyse them carefully .These samples provide evidence of what the learners know about the target language .If the samples are collected at different points in time ,It may be possible to find out how learners knowledge gradually develops. in other words , what we are trying to is describe how learner language change over time.c.the focus of SLASLA has not focused on these communicative aspects of language development --- how learners’ overall ability to communicate develops, how they become more fluent in their use of an L2 .but on the formal features of language that linguists have traditionally concentrated on .----- pronunciation (how learners’accents change over time.) words---how learners build up their vocabulary；most of ten ,the focus has been on the grammar---{the focus has been the grammar of the L2}d.the goals of SLAOne of the goal of SLA is the description of L2 acquisition.Ano