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This study is an attempt to understand SLA studies by sketching a partial history of the field with a specific focus on the tension between cognitive and social worldviews in SLA studies. In the 1990s, this tension was revealed by two controversies between SLA researchers advocating a cognitive orientation and their critics. The first controversy was about what an SLA theory should look like the "theory construction debate" and the second controversy was on fundamental assumptions held and concepts used in mainstream SLA the "cognitive-social debate." I argue that while the theory construction…mehr

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This study is an attempt to understand SLA studies by sketching a partial history of the field with a specific focus on the tension between cognitive and social worldviews in SLA studies. In the 1990s, this tension was revealed by two controversies between SLA researchers advocating a cognitive orientation and their critics. The first controversy was about what an SLA theory should look like the "theory construction debate" and the second controversy was on fundamental assumptions held and concepts used in mainstream SLA the "cognitive-social debate." I argue that while the theory construction debate reveals the presence of scientism in SLA studies, the cognitive-social debate indicates the cognitivism in the field. This present study is a historical account of these two debates.
Autorenporträt
Beril Tezeller Arik es estudiante de doctorado en el programa de inglés como segundo idioma de la Universidad Purdue. Está interesada en la lingüística aplicada, los enfoques ecológicos para la adquisición de un segundo idioma y la escritura en un segundo idioma.