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Variation and dynamic systems in SLA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

MANFRED PIENEMANN
Affiliation:
University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, Gebäude H, Raum 341, 33098 Paderborn, Germany, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, UK E-mail: Pienemann@zitmail.upb.de, manfred.pienemann@ncl.ac.uk

Extract

In their paper De Bot, Lowie and Verspoor (henceforth DBL&V) attempt to recast SLA research from a non-modular and psychometric position that is based on the assumption that “all variables are interrelated and therefore changes in one variable will have an impact on all other variables that are part of the system” (p. 8). In such grand endeavour their paper naturally raises a large number of issues in SLA research.

Type
Peer Commentaries
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2007

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