The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Julia Herschensohn is Professor Emerita at the Department of Linguistics, University of Washington. Her research interests include child and adult language development, and processing in Spanish, French, Korean and Hebrew by adult, heritage and child learners.

Martha Young-Scholten is Professor Emerita of Second Language Acquisition at Newcastle University and Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. Her current research focuses on acquisition and reading development by low-literate adult immigrants. She co-founded Literacy Education and Second Language Acquisition by Adults (LESLLA) and co-directs Simply Stories and EU-Speak.

Ana Fernández Dobao is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Her areas of expertise include Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Language Learning and Language Pedagogy. She has published on topics such as HL-L2 interaction in mixed classes, collaborative writing and learning, and child language acquisition in immersion contexts.

Alex Ho-Cheong Leung is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Northumbria University, UK, and an executive member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. His research interests include second language speech acquisition, identities, and TESOL. He is co-editor of ‘Key Concepts' in the ELT Journal.