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Publication details [#27109]

Lightbown, Patsy M. 2002. The role of SLA research in L2 teaching: Reply to Sheen. Applied Linguistics 23 (4) : 529–535.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

applied linguistics | language teaching | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This reply to Sheen's critique clarifies points made in the author's 1985 and 2000 articles and challenges some of Sheen's interpretations, distinguishing between the influence of theory and research from second language acquisition and from other areas, including applied linguistics.