The Acquisition of Russian as a Second Language

This is the first comprehensive, systematic overview of research on the acquisition of Russian as a second language. Drawing on classic and contemporary empirical studies from diverse learning contexts and proficiency levels, it synthesizes findings across all components of the language.

Tania Ionin is Professor and Head of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as an Associate Editor of Language Acquisition. She is one of the editors of the 2024 Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics. Tatiana Luchkina is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Director of the MA TESOL Program at Stony Brook University.

Chapter 1: Introduction: second language acquisition and bilingualism in the context of Russian Chapter 2: Methodological Approaches in Current Research on Second Language Acquisition of Russian Chapter 3. Phonetics and phonology in Russian as a Second Language Chapter 4: Lexical Knowledge in Russian as a Second Language Chapter 5. The nominal domain in Russian as a second language: Case and gender Chapter 6. The verbal domain in Russian as a second language Chapter 7: Word order and discourse in Russian as a second language Chapter 8. Developing Pragmatic Competence in Russian as a Second Language Chapter 9: Summary and Conclusion Index