Today, I finished adding content and organizing the Second Language Acquisition page for the class wiki - at least for the Principles of learning class!  My main goal was to leave this page organized to the point where other participants, who are interested in the field of SLA, can continue to work on it - present and future!  I feel the layout of the page is logical and effectively highlights the different theories that have developed in the field of SLA over time, at least the main ones!  During this process, I was able to link a lot of the theories to the content that already existed on the class wiki so I believe that this page is a great addition to the site as SLA is very multidisciplinary.

Looking at the finished content, I wish I could have completed more of the page, at least to the stage where I had a brief summary of each of the listed theories, not to mention, I was very eager to work on the Stephen Krashen section.  However, due to time limitations, I decided to focus on what I could finish at the start of the page which were sections 1 to 3.2.1.

Outside of changes to the main page, I was also able to add content to the following  links:

Grammar Translation Method
Series Method
Direct Method

My last edits of the day were to delete all the placeholders that I had on the page.

I feel learning about the class wiki was a great learning experience.  It was confusing at the start but it got easier as time went by.

 I look forward to seeing how my contributions lead to further developments on this site.

Today, I continued to organize the Second Language Acquisition page to cover the development of this field from the 1960s to the present.  I linked some more theories and theorists to other information pages, some which existed (green), others did not (blue).

The Grammar-Translation Model
The Direct Method
The Audio-Lingual Method
Larry Selinker
Cognitive Approach
Community Language Learning
The Natural Approach
Silent Period
Input Hypothesis
Total Physical Response (TPR)
Communicative Language Teaching
Functional-Notional Approach
Michael Long
Interaction Hypothesis
Merrill Swain
Output Hypothesis
Richard Schmidt
Noticing Hypothesis
Eclecticism
Sociocultural Theory

I feel that my overview of the development of SLA over the past 50+ years is a good start to this page. At this point, it is in no way comprehensive but over time other participants can improve upon it by adding to this page.  Over the next few days, I will start adding some information to the new links (highlighted in blue) while adding to and/or editing those links that already existed (highlighted in green).