Regarding the work developed by Rod Ellis about “second...

social conditions influence the opportunities that learners have to hear and speak the language and the attitudes that they develop towards it.

second language acquisition can be defined as the way in which people learn a language other than their mother tongue only inside a classroom.

the systematic study of how people acquire a second language is a very old phenomenon belonging to the second half of the seventeenth century.

‘second’ cannot refer to any language that is learned subsequent to the mother tongue, thus it cannot refer to the learning of a third or fourth language.