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Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper
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Beckner, Clay; Blythe, Richard; Bybee, Joan; Christiansen, Morten H.; Croft, William; Ellis, Nick C.; Holland, John; Ke, Jinyun; Larsen-Freeman, Diane; Schoenemann, Tom – Language Learning, 2009
Language has a fundamentally social function. Processes of human interaction along with domain-general cognitive processes shape the structure and knowledge of language. Recent research in the cognitive sciences has demonstrated that patterns of use strongly affect how language is acquired, is used, and changes. These processes are not independent…
Descriptors: Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Interpersonal Relationship
On the Scope of Second Language Acquisition Research: "The Learner Variety" Perspective and Beyond--A Response to Klein.
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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Learning, 1998
Responds to a previous article that suggests the second-language-acquisition acquisition field has failed to realize academic respectability. Offers an overview of some of the more positive advances in the discipline. Concludes by calling for a whole systems approach to the study of second language acquisition. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Interlanguage, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
The Effect of Formal Language Instruction on the Order of Morpheme Acquisition
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Perkins, Kyle; Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Learning, 1975
A study was conducted to determine if informal learners of ESL had the same acquisition order of morphemes as formal learners have and to find out what would happen to the established order if only certain of the grammatical morphemes were explained and drilled. Instruction did not change acquisition order. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, English (Second Language), Language Instruction