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Publication details [#27072]

Block, David. 1996. Not so fast: Some thoughts on theory culling, relativism, accepted findings and the heart and soul of SLA. Applied Linguistics 17 (1) : 63–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

applied linguistics | cognition | education | psycholinguistics | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper challenges some major claims in recent second language acquisition (SLA) research, such as the necessity of theory unification and the acceptance of a body of 'definite findings'. It considers SLA as a multi-dimensional process of exploration and speculation.