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What Do We Learn When We Learn a Language?
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Cooper, Robert L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Rejects the assumptions which underlie the audiolingual method and offers two alternative propositions: (1) successful use of language requires the acquisition of communicative as well as linguistic competence and (2) first and second language learning are analogous processes. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Instruction