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Theoretical Foundations in Linguistics and Related Fields. Responding to New Realities. ACTFL Review of Foreign Language Education, Vol. 5.

Quinn, Terence J. – 1974

Recent evaluations of the influence of linguistics on language teaching indicate that there is a growing gulf between the two fields. Linguistics failed to provide a sound theoretical foundation for language teaching; it did not alter the content of language teaching, nor did it successfully modify the attitudes of teachers. The parameters of the…

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