The Contribution of Second Language Acquisition Research  

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Klein, Wolfgang

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 48 no. 4 (Dec. 1998), page 527-550.
Fulltext: 48_04_Klein.pdf (97.1KB)

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During the last 25 years, second language acquisition (SLA) research has made considerable progress, but is still far from proving a solid basis for foreign language teaching, or from general theory of SLA. In addition, its status within the linguistic discipline is still very low. I argue this has not much to do with low empirical or theoretical standards in the fields-in this regard, SLA research is fully competitive-but with a particular perspective on the acquisition process: SLA researchers learners' utterances as deviations from a certain target, instead of genuine manifestations of underlying language capacity; it analyses them in terms of what they are not rather than what they are. For some purposes such a "target deviation perspective" make sense, but it will not help SLA researchers to substantially and independently contribute to a deeper understanding of the structure and function of the human language faculty. Therefore, these findings will remain of limited interest to other scientists until SLA researchers consider learner varieties a normal, in fact typical, manifestation of this unique human capacity.

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