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In the eyes of a MAT student, this theory can help to shape a classroom for English Language Learners. It can help to create and frame a place where students will work together and learn from one their cultures so that we help minimize and eliminate social distance that may otherwise stop a student from learning a language. It can help teachers to understand their students and what factors may be affecting their learning or progress with content and language acquisition. This theory is still limited and while it does cover social and psychological factors, it does not include cognitive factors. It should be used as a tool and not the only language theory that should be taught or used.

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"Both group and individual social and psychological factors must surely have some role in a comprehensive theory of SLA, perhaps most obviously as variables conditioning the amount and type of target-language exposure the learners experiences. Equally clearly, on the other hand, it should come as no surprise if a mental process, (second) language learning, is not successfully explicable by any theory which ignores linguistic and cognitive variables"  (Freeman and Freeman, 131)

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"In situations which social distance neither strongly promotes nor inhibits language acquisition, psychological distance may play a crucial role (Freeman and Freeman, 127).

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1. Social Dominance

2. Integration Pattern

3. Enclosure

4. Cohesiveness

5. Size

6. Cultural Congruence

7. Attitude

8. Intended length of residence

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"The greater the social distance between two cultures, the greater the difficulty the learner will have in learning the second language, and conversely, the smaller the social distance (the greater the social solidarity between two cultures), the better will be the language learning situation" (Freeman and Freeman, 126).

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I have a theory about second language acquisition and I heard you may wanna hear a little bit more about it...

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Hi, I'm John Schumann. I am professor of Applied Linguistics and former chair of the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL at UCLA.
http://comm.ucla.edu/content/john-schumann-phd