Comments on J. Zuengler and E. R. Miller's "Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives: Two Parallel SLA Worlds?" The Authors Reply  

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Zuengler, Jane ; Miller, Elizabeth R.

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 826-828.
Fulltext: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 826-828.pdf (299.98KB)

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¦ In his reply to our article, Kent Hill argues for developing a socio- cognitive theory in SLA by "correcting" the "false mind/body distinc- tion" that began, he writes, as far back as Descartes and which he says has been responsible for separate conceptions of the cognitive and the sociocultural. In discussing the need for commensurability between sociocultural and cognitive, and explaining how the two might be brought together conceptually, Hill's is not (contrary to what he claims) "a response to Zuengler and Miller." The primary purpose of our article was to identify and discuss what we considered several major developments in SLA in the past 15 years. We were not setting out to address what might or should be happening in SLA in the future. It therefore seems misguided to criticize us for not "explicitly call [ing] for a shift in SLA from a first- to second-generation cognitive paradigm" (p. 822), or to assert that we "might argue that the cogni- tive perspective will continue to dominate its parallel SCT world" (p. 823; in our article, we do not predict the future with regard to socio- cultural versus cognitive paradigms). Hill's article is more accurately read - and judged - as a stand-alone piece rather than a response to our article. In light of this, we add a point below that the reader should interpret as a response to Hill, but not as a critique of his article as a direct response to our article's argument.

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