LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Connectionism, Noam Chomsky, Behaviorism
15 Jan 2016
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Lecture 12: more on theories and models of sla. On the one hand, there are those who argue that sla needs to engage in the careful elimination of theories to demonstrate its maturity as a discipline. On the other hand, there are those who argue that l2 acquisition is a highly complex phenomenon and that, therefore, multiple theories are both inevitable and desirable. The types of enquiry that characterize sla and the types of explanation provided reflect the different purposes of researchers. Some researchers have been primarily concerned with language pedagogy and have seen sla as contributing to more effective language teaching. Others have been more concerned with linguistics and have seen sla as a way of testing hypotheses about the nature of language. Still others have been concerned with the sociology of multilingual communities and are interested in sla because it serves to illustrate how social context affects and is affected by language.
