Comments on J. Zuengler and E. R. Miller's "Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives: Two Parallel SLA Worlds?" A Reader Responds: A Sociocognitive Perspective: The Best of Both Worlds  

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Hill, Kent

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: TESOL Quarterly (Full Text; vol 1-16 ada di JSTOR) vol. 40 no. 4 (Dec. 2006), page 819-826.
Fulltext: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 819-826.pdf (706.75KB)

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¦ In the TESOL Quarterly s 40th anniversary issue, Zuengler and Miller (2006) referred to cognitive and sociocultural (SCT) perspectives as "parallel worlds," a split that goes back to at least Descartes (1641/1986), the false mind/body distinction, and reductionism in science. Though I agree that they remain separate ontologies that have continued to commiserate in incommensurability, by correcting this false construct, incommensurability no longer holds. In this response to Zuengler and Miller, I argue that, rather than separately, the two theories developed antithetically (e.g., langue and parole) and suggest that in SLA, incommensurability actually led to the cognitive perspective being dominant over SCT. Then I point out assimilative developments in both theories as they enter their third generation and briefly explain the advantages of a sociocognitive approach to reveal how it offers the best of both worlds

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