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Peer reviewedWhite, Lydia – TESL Canada Journal, 1985
Outlines what Universal Grammar (UG) attempts to explain in first language (L1) acquisition and considers what research UG suggests for the area of second language (L2) learning. Suggest that L2 learners are faced with similar problems as L1 learners and that UG might have a role to play in L2 as well. (SED)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Universals, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedNey, James W. – English Language Teaching Journal, 1980
Discusses the implications for language teaching of Chomskyean and transformational theory. The notions of deep structure, linguistic theory building, and inutility of a corpus are far less interesting than the view of language as rule-governed behavior and language learning as hypothesis-testing. Rationalist v behaviorist theories are discussed.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, English (Second Language)
