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Publication details [#30567]

Atkinson, Dwight. 2002. Toward a Sociocognitive Approach to Second Language Acquisition. The Modern Language Journal 86 (4) : 525–545.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | interaction | L2-acquisition | perspective

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0026-7902

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/modl

Annotation

This paper develops the notion of a sociocognitive approach to second language learning, that is a view of language and language acquisition as occurring simultaneously and build up interactively both "in the head" and "in the world."