What Do We Learn When We Learn a Language?.

Cooper, Robert L.

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ERIC Number: EJ033687

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Publication Date: 1970

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What Do We Learn When We Learn a Language?

Cooper, Robert L.

TESOL Quarterly, 4, 4, 303-314, Dec '70

Rejects the assumptions which underlie the audiolingual method and offers two alternative propositions: (1) successful use of language requires the acquisition of communicative as well as linguistic competence and (2) first and second language learning are analogous processes. (Author/FB)

Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Transformational Generative Grammar

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