Second-language acquisition

Second-language acquisition - process in which a second or additional language is acquired after the first language has been learned. Article "Second-language acquisition" in English Wikipedia has 52.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 87 references and 22 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article "Second-language acquisition" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Second-language acquisition", its content was written by 431 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 797 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 596 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1234 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5023 in July 2009
• Global: #15650 in August 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2220 in July 2009
• Global: #5797 in July 2009

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Indonesian (id) Pemerolehan bahasa kedua		83.5552
2	Ukrainian (uk) Засвоєння другої мови		83.3333
3	English (en) Second-language acquisition		52.272
4	Italian (it) Acquisizione delle lingue straniere		50.5599
5	Spanish (es) Adquisición de segunda lengua		48.2615
6	German (de) Zweitspracherwerb		47.1574
7	Arabic (ar) اكتساب اللغة الثانية		43.9793
8	Chinese (zh) 第二語言習得		35.3737
9	Russian (ru) Усвоение второго языка		26.5843
10	Catalan (ca) Adquisició d'una segona llengua		24.3328

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Second-language acquisition" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Second-language acquisition		4 690 795
2	Arabic (ar) اكتساب اللغة الثانية		233 397
3	Japanese (ja) 第二言語習得		213 678
4	Italian (it) Acquisizione delle lingue straniere		191 860
5	German (de) Zweitspracherwerb		175 827
6	Indonesian (id) Pemerolehan bahasa kedua		125 554
7	Russian (ru) Усвоение второго языка		111 112
8	Portuguese (pt) Aquisição de segunda língua		96 551
9	Chinese (zh) 第二語言習得		96 220
10	French (fr) Acquisition des langues étrangères		58 262

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Second-language acquisition" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Second-language acquisition		6 678
2	Chinese (zh) 第二語言習得		508
3	Russian (ru) Усвоение второго языка		350
4	Italian (it) Acquisizione delle lingue straniere		338
5	Japanese (ja) 第二言語習得		314
6	German (de) Zweitspracherwerb		239
7	Arabic (ar) اكتساب اللغة الثانية		218
8	Spanish (es) Adquisición de segunda lengua		180
9	Portuguese (pt) Aquisição de segunda língua		114
10	Indonesian (id) Pemerolehan bahasa kedua		99

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Second-language acquisition" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Second-language acquisition		431
2	Italian (it) Acquisizione delle lingue straniere		85
3	French (fr) Acquisition des langues étrangères		40
4	Japanese (ja) 第二言語習得		36
5	Arabic (ar) اكتساب اللغة الثانية		34
6	German (de) Zweitspracherwerb		26
7	Chinese (zh) 第二語言習得		24
8	Russian (ru) Усвоение второго языка		19
9	Persian (fa) فراگیری زبان دوم		17
10	Portuguese (pt) Aquisição de segunda língua		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Second-language acquisition" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Second-language acquisition		3
2	Italian (it) Acquisizione delle lingue straniere		3
3	Arabic (ar) اكتساب اللغة الثانية		1
4	Russian (ru) Усвоение второго языка		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Засвоєння другої мови		1
6	Catalan (ca) Adquisició d'una segona llengua		0
7	German (de) Zweitspracherwerb		0
8	Greek (el) Κατάκτηση δεύτερης γλώσσας		0
9	Spanish (es) Adquisición de segunda lengua		0
10	Basque (eu) Bigarren hizkuntza eskuratze		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Second-language acquisition" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Second-language acquisition		596
2	Persian (fa) فراگیری زبان دوم		82
3	Japanese (ja) 第二言語習得		79
4	Chinese (zh) 第二語言習得		77
5	Italian (it) Acquisizione delle lingue straniere		56
6	Turkish (tr) İkinci dil edinimi		56
7	Arabic (ar) اكتساب اللغة الثانية		47
8	French (fr) Acquisition des langues étrangères		42
9	Greek (el) Κατάκτηση δεύτερης γλώσσας		36
10	German (de) Zweitspracherwerb		29

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اكتساب اللغة الثانية
ca	Catalan Adquisició d'una segona llengua
de	German Zweitspracherwerb
el	Greek Κατάκτηση δεύτερης γλώσσας
en	English Second-language acquisition
es	Spanish Adquisición de segunda lengua
eu	Basque Bigarren hizkuntza eskuratze
fa	Persian فراگیری زبان دوم
fr	French Acquisition des langues étrangères
hu	Hungarian Második nyelv elsajátítása
hy	Armenian Օտար լեզվի ուսուցման փուլեր և ոճեր
id	Indonesian Pemerolehan bahasa kedua
it	Italian Acquisizione delle lingue straniere
ja	Japanese 第二言語習得
ko	Korean 제2언어 습득
pt	Portuguese Aquisição de segunda língua
ru	Russian Усвоение второго языка
sl	Slovenian Učenje tujih jezikov
sv	Swedish Språkinlärning
tr	Turkish İkinci dil edinimi
uk	Ukrainian Засвоєння другої мови
zh	Chinese 第二語言習得

Best Rank

English: #2220 07.2009

Global: #5797 07.2009

Best Rank

English: #5023 07.2009

Global: #15650 08.2012

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