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Edmondson, Willis J. 1987. 'Acquisition' and 'learning': The discourse system integration hypothesis. In Lörscher, Wolfgang and Rainer Schulze, eds. Perspectives on language in performance: Studies in linguistics, criticism, and language teaching and learning. To honour Werner Hüllen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Gunter Narr. pp. 1070–1089.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | foreign language proficiency | mental representation

Annotation

E. defends the claim that knowledge about a target language can lead to improved use of it if a rudimentary but functionally complete target language discourse system exists in the learner's cognitive structures.