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Peer reviewedWardaugh, Ronald – Language Learning, 1998
Responds to a previous article on research in second-language learning, challenging the need for discussion on the promises and problems, and asserting the need to report definitive results. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedLamendella, John T.; Selinker, Larry – Language Learning, 1979
Six tentative conclusions about the role of extrinsic feedback in interlanguage fossilization are presented and discussed in light of hypotheses made by Virgil and Oller regarding this phenomenon. Extrinsic factors are those characteristics of the learner which are oriented toward the environment and which act as the interface between the learner…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Feedback, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedSchachter, Jacquelyn – Language Learning, 1998
From perspective of a psycholinguist, discusses three leading questions that have arisen from foundational, descriptive second-language-acquisiton studies: Why are certain L2 constructions learnable and others not?; In considering input requirements, is it fair to say that adult learners can take advantage of metalinguistic information about the…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research
