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Peer reviewedEllis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 1990
Responds to a previous article that attacks variabilists' accounts of second-language acquisition (SLA) by addressing the following issues: (1) the context dependency of theory in SLA research; (2) the competency performance distinction; (3) the problem of data in SLA research; and (4) explanations of SLA. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Models
