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Publication details [#27022]

Beretta, Alan. 1993. 'As God said, and I think, rightly...' Perspectives on theory construction in SLA: An introduction. Applied Linguistics 14 (3) : 221–224.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

philosophy | scientific discussion | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper which introduces a special Applied Linguistics issue on theory construction in second language acquisition, emphasizes the importance of contributions from philosophy and history of science.