In this contribution it is argued that Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) can be seen as a comprehensive theory that can unify and make relevant a number of different ‘middle level’ theories on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) which in our view are theories that attend to different levels of granularity and different time scales, provided of course that the middle level theories are commensurable with DST principles. Such theories, such as ecological and cultural-historical/sociocultural approaches to development, and cognitive, emergent, and distributed theories of language, place language development in the wider perspective of societal change and interaction with cultural and material aspects of the environment.
2024. Teaching to the track: grouping in reception education for Newly Arrived Migrant students. International Journal of Inclusive Education 28:5 ► pp. 594 ff.
Leider, Christine Montecillo & C. Patrick Proctor
2024. Toward a dynamic idiolect: Multilingual perspectives on the “science of reading”. Educational Psychologist 59:4 ► pp. 250 ff.
Pemberton, Ian
2024. Usage-Based Linguistics. In Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, ► pp. 145 ff.
Pemberton, Ian
2024. Foundations. In Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, ► pp. 125 ff.
van Dijk, Marijn, Wander Lowie, Nienke Smit, Marjolijn Verspoor & Paul van Geert
2024. Complex dynamic systems theory as a foundation for process-oriented research on second language development. Second Language Research
Wang, Feifei, Alan C.K. Cheung & Ching Sing Chai
2024. Language learning development in human-AI interaction: A thematic review of the research landscape. System 125 ► pp. 103424 ff.
Han, ZhaoHong, Eun Young Kang & Sarah Sok
2023. The complexity epistemology and ontology in second language acquisition: A critical review. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 45:5 ► pp. 1388 ff.
Mroz, Aurore P. & Tricia Thrasher
2022. Proficiency development and smartphone usage in study abroad: Microgenetic longitudinal case studies of French learners. Foreign Language Annals 55:2 ► pp. 455 ff.
Pallotti, Gabriele
2022. Cratylus’ silence: On the philosophy and methodology of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA. Second Language Research 38:3 ► pp. 689 ff.
Bouchard, Jérémie
2021. Complex Dynamic System Theory and Applied Linguistics. In Complexity, Emergence, and Causality in Applied Linguistics, ► pp. 373 ff.
Kyle, Kristopher, Scott Crossley & Marjolijn Verspoor
2021. MEASURING LONGITUDINAL WRITING DEVELOPMENT USING INDICES OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY AND SOPHISTICATION. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 43:4 ► pp. 781 ff.
Resnik, Pia
2021. Multilinguals’ use of L1 and L2 inner speech. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 24:1 ► pp. 72 ff.
THORNE, STEVEN L., JOHN HELLERMANN & TEPPO JAKONEN
2021. Rewilding Language Education: Emergent Assemblages and Entangled Actions. The Modern Language Journal 105:S1 ► pp. 106 ff.
2020. A microanalysis of the sophomore and senior translation students’ uncertainty management in the process of translation: a complex dynamic approach. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies 7:1 ► pp. 67 ff.
Levine, Glenn S.
2020. References. The Modern Language Journal 104:S1 ► pp. 103 ff.
2019. Defining and Assessing Multilingualism. In The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism, ► pp. 1 ff.
Hofer, Barbara
2017. Emergent multicompetence at the primary level: a dynamic conception of multicompetence. Language Awareness 26:2 ► pp. 96 ff.
Kasbi, Saba & Majid Elahi Shirvan
2017. Ecological understanding of foreign language speaking anxiety: emerging patterns and dynamic systems. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 2:1
Kirkham, Deak
2017. Culture, Communication, and Identity in Anglophone Study Abroad English Language Provision. In Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education [Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development, ], ► pp. 293 ff.
Kirkham, Deak
2019. Culture, Communication, and Identity in Anglophone Study Abroad English Language Provision. In Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ► pp. 411 ff.
Li, Aijun & Gongping Wang
2017. 2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), ► pp. 1106 ff.
Narcy-Combes, Jean-Paul
2017. Réponse à Marjolijn Verspoor : de la nécessité d’aller au-delà du linguistique. Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures 14:1
Babatsouli, Elena
2016. Chaos in Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. In Handbook of Applications of Chaos Theory, ► pp. 879 ff.
Bambirra, Raquel
2016. A Snapshot of Signature Dynamics in An English Class in Brazil: From a Motivational Attractor Basin Towards An Attractor State. Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching 1:1 ► pp. 20 ff.
HIVER, PHIL & ALI H. AL‐HOORIE
2016. A Dynamic Ensemble for Second Language Research: Putting Complexity Theory Into Practice. The Modern Language Journal 100:4 ► pp. 741 ff.
KERZ, ELMA & DANIEL WIECHMANN
2016. Second language construction learning: investigating domain-specific adaptation in advanced L2 production. Language and Cognition 8:4 ► pp. 533 ff.
Ortega, Lourdes
2016. Multi-competence in second language acquisition: inroads into the mainstream?. In The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multi-Competence, ► pp. 50 ff.
Ortega, Lourdes
2018. Ontologies of language, Second Language Acquisition, and world Englishes. World Englishes 37:1 ► pp. 64 ff.
Baten, Kristof & Gisela Håkansson
2015. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSES IN GERMAN AND SWEDISH AS L2S. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 37:3 ► pp. 517 ff.
Schaller-Schwaner, Iris
2015. Does a picture say more than 7000 words? Windows of opportunity to learn languages – an attempt at a creative reflective poster. Language Learning in Higher Education 5:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Pawlak, Mirosław, Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak & Jakub Bielak
2014. Another Look at Temporal Variation in Language Learning Motivation: Results of a Study. In Essential Topics in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism [Second Language Learning and Teaching, ], ► pp. 89 ff.
Rosmawati
2014. Second Language Developmental Dynamics: How Dynamic Systems Theory Accounts for Issues in Second Language Learning. The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist 31:1 ► pp. 66 ff.
2014. An Ecological View of Whole‐Class Discussions in a Second Language Literature Classroom: Teacher Reformulations as Affordances for Learning. The Modern Language Journal 98:3 ► pp. 724 ff.
Thoms, Joshua J.
2014. An Ecological View of Whole-Class Discussions in a Second Language Literature Classroom: Teacher Reformulations as Affordances for Learning. The Modern Language Journal 98:3 ► pp. 724 ff.
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