Integrativeness: Untenable for world Englishes learners?  

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Rooy, Susan Coetzee-van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 25 no. 3/4 (Aug. 2006), page 437-450.
Fulltext: Susan Coetzee-Van rooy.pdf (131.71KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/WOE/25 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Kachru (1988) and Sridhar and Sridhar (1992) argue that the spread of English as a world language increases the types of context in which English is learnt today. The sociolinguistic realities of world Englishes learners today challenge the validity of some second-language acquisition theories. One of the theoretical limitations of existing second-language acquisition theories is the dependence upon the notion of integrativeness to explain success in second-language acquisition. In this paper, the notion of integrativeness is problematized from an empirical and theoretical perspective. The main findings are: (I) second-language acquisition theories that rely on any assumption of integrativeness should not be applied uncritically to sociolinguistic contexts where learners are acquiring a variety of world English today; (2) it seems that the concentric circle description of the sociolinguistic realities of world Englishes speakers needs to be adjusted.

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