Second Language Research in Late Modernity: A Response to Firth and Wagner.

Rampton, Ben

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ERIC Number: EJ550697

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Second Language Research in Late Modernity: A Response to Firth and Wagner.

Rampton, Ben

Modern Language Journal, v81 n3 p329-33 Fall 1997

Argues, from a sociolinguistic perspective, that second language (L2) research could usefully engage with some of the debates concerning postmodernity. Suggests that globalization presents an important range of empirical phenomena requiring serious L2 study. Indicates the kinds of linguistic assumptions that ideas about postmodernity draw into doubt. (29 references) (CK)

Descriptors: Change Agents, Child Language, Global Approach, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Postmodernism, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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