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The Evolving Context of the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis
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Bley-Vroman, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
Foreign language learning contrasts with native language development in two key respects: It is unreliable and it is nonconvergent. At the same time, it is clear that foreign languages are languages. The fundamental difference hypothesis (FDH) was introduced as a way to account for the general characteristics of foreign language learning. The FDH…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Acquisition