This text is the first holistic research overview and practical methodological guide for social network analysis in second language acquisition, examining how to study learner social networks and how to use network data to predict language learner behavior and identity.

Kristen Kennedy Terry is an Assistant Professor of French and Applied Linguistics at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. She has published her research on social networks and study abroad in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, The Modern Language Journal, The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics, Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic Perspectives, and the L2 Journal.

Robert Bayley is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. His recent publications include articles in Language and Studies in Second Language Acquisition as well as the edited books, Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic Perspectives (with D. R. Preston and X Li., 2022) and Needed Research on North American Dialects (with E. Benson, 2023). Professor Bayley was President of the American Dialect Society (ADS) and is a Fellow of the ADS and the Linguistic Society of America.

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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Social Network Analysis in First Language Speech Communities
Chapter 3. Social Network Analysis in Bi- and Multilingual Communities
Chapter 4. Social Network Analysis and Theories of Second Language Acquisition
Chapter 5. Applications of Social Network Analysis in Second Language Research
Chapter 6. Data Collection for Social Network Analysis in Second Language Research
Chapter 7. Measuring and Depicting Social Networks in Second Language Research
Chapter 8. Using Social Network Analysis to Examine Linguistic Outcomes: Inferential Statistics
Chapter 9. Using Social Network Analysis to Examine Linguistic Outcomes: Network Structure and Composition
Chapter 10. Social Network Analysis: New Tools, Communities, and Interactive Contexts
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