Item versus System Learning: Explaining Free Variation  

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Ellis, Rod

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 4 (Dec. 1999), page 460-480.
Fulltext: 20.4;460-480.pdf (1.1MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This article provides an explanation for the existence of free variation in learner language. It argues that interlanguage is best conceptualized as sets of loose lexical networks that are gradually reorganized into a system or systems. Free variation in leaner-language is seen as the behavioral manifestation of the lexical networks and systematic variation of the existence of a system. The article reviews previous research that provides evidence of the existence of free variation. It argues that free variation is of theoretical significance to SLA researchers because it reflects the role of item learning in acquiring an L2. Free variation arises when learners add Items to those they have already acquired and before they analyze these items and organize them into a system. This view of free variation accords with current cognitive views of L2 acquisition according to which syntactic categories are extracted from items that are implicitly acquired through exposure to input (Ellis 1996).

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