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Direct linkKramsch, Claire; Whiteside, Anne – Modern Language Journal, 2007
This article considers how 3 fundamental concepts of second language acquisition (SLA), the native speaker, interlanguage, and the language learner have fared since Firth and Wagner (1997). We review the ascendancy of these concepts and their relationship to the traditional dichotomies of language learning versus language use and individual mind…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Second Language Learning, Social Action, Multilingualism
Crookes, Graham, Ed.; Gass, Susan M., Ed. – 1993
Essays on second language teaching focuses on how the kinds of tasks performed by the learner relate to language output. "Choosing and Using Communication Tasks for Second Language Instruction" (Teresa Pica, Ruth Kanagy, Joseph Falodun) contains a taxonomy of communication task types, based on the concepts of goal and activity,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
