Lydia White

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Who is Lydia White?

Lydia White is a researcher and educator in the area of second language acquisition. She is James McGill Professor of Linguistics and currently Chair of the Department of Linguistics at McGill University.

Her 1989 survey of SLA research, Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition, has become a standard textbook in many university level SLA courses. The book puts particular emphasis on research which explores the implications that the theory of linguistic universals has had upon second language acquisition approaches.

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on July 23, 2013

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