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MULTILINGUALISM, SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND GENDER. Aneta Pavlenko, Adrian Blackledge, Ingrid Piller, and Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (Eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xi + 356. $79.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2004

Janet Holmes
Janet Holmes
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Victoria University, Wellington
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Extract

In their introduction, Piller and Pavlenko claim that SLA research suffers from:

an almost ubiquitous gender-blindness due to the prevalence of psycholinguistic and Universal Grammar approaches … which assume a generic language user and disregard individual variation as “noise,” a distraction which cannot be avoided but which cannot in any way contribute to our understanding of the universal facts of SLA. (p. 3)

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 125 - 126
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2004 Cambridge University Press

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Schmidt, R.W., & Frota, S. (1986). Developing basic conversational ability in a second language: A case study of an adult learner. In R. Day (Ed.), Talking to learn: Conversation in second language acquisition (pp. 237–326). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.