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Language Learning Great and Small: Environmental Support Structures and Learning Opportunities in a Sociocognitive Approach to Second Language Acquisition/Teaching
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Atkinson, Dwight; Churchill, Eton; Nishino, Takako; Okada, Hanako – Modern Language Journal, 2018
Sociocognitive theory views learning, including second language acquisition, as the progressive "alignment" of individuals vis-à-vis their ecosocial environments. In this article we first update sociocognitive theory in light of recent evolutionary/ecological research on learning/teaching: (a) Humans are evolutionarily "adapted to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Social Cognition