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On determining developmental stages in natural second language acquisition
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Research on Second Language (L2) Acquisition, over the past ten years, has undergone substantial changes by shifting its focus of interest away from an analysis of linguistic structures alone, concentrating more on the learner himself or, rather, on the process of learning. It had become obvious that one of the major shortcomings in contrastive studies as well as in the usual kind of error analysis is that they lack thorough investigation of factors which determine the kind of approach a learner may take to acquire a second language. This again implies that it is more fruitful to study the process of learning itself instead of merely analysing its outputs. It is by now widely accepted that the learner takes an active part in the learning process and does not merely get trapped in structural gaps which linguists may find when comparing the source language (the learner's L1) and the target language (L2).
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- Authors
- Meisel, J. M., Clahsen, H., & Pienemann, M.
- Venue
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1981
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 109-135
- ISSN
- 0272-2631 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1545
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- W2124994384
- Cited by
- 572
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- FWCI
- 56.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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