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The Role of Theory in Empirical L2 Research on Task-Based Language Teaching for Young L2 Learners

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Beccia, Ashley – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021

Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is purportedly the only L2 pedagogy rooted in SLA theory and research and is unique in its psycholinguistic, ecological and pedagogical validity. Theoretical entities such as Processability Theory (Pienemann & Lenzing, 2020), the cognitive-interactionist approach (Gass & Mackey, 2020), and emergentism…

Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

SLA as Complex, Dynamical and Predictable: A Processability Theory Perspective

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Dyson, Bronwen – Second Language Research, 2023

This article enters the debate about the complex and dynamical nature of second language acquisition (SLA) by discussing and commenting on Pallotti's critique of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). Pallotti's critique brings to the fore the argument that, due to its anti-reductionist stance, CDST research fails to observe three fundamental…

Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Language Research