Mike Sharwood Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Sharwood Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike Sharwood |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heriot-Watt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dangerous dichotomies and misunderstandings in L2 research
This article draws attention to the obstacles created by imprecise definitions and misleading dichotomies. In this case the focus is on second language and multilingualism research literature. Despite the obvious benefits of reformulating otherwise complex ideas and approaches in simpler terms in order to distill their essential meaning, misunderstandings and misrepresentations can too easily arise. These can then proliferate within and beyond th…
SLR today, yesterday and tomorrow
Insights of genius
Learnability and Second Languages
Strategies, Language Transfer and the Simulation of the Second Language Learner's Mental Operations1
The focus of this paper is on language transfer and a particular method of investigating it. Attempts to analyze the decision procedures underlying a learner's (or second language user's) attempts to structure utterances in a given target language in the light of some recent hypotheses about transfer should highlight the importance of the phenomenon and emphasise the dubiousness of a fairly standard view of transfer as a relatively simple mechani…
Strategies, Language Transfer and the Simulation of the Second Language Learner's Mental Operations1
The focus of this paper is on language transfer and a particular method of investigating it. Attempts to analyze the decision procedures underlying a learner's (or second language user's) attempts to structure utterances in a given target language in the light of some recent hypotheses about transfer should highlight the importance of the phenomenon and emphasise the dubiousness of a fairly standard view of transfer as a relatively simple mechani…
Strategies, Language Transfer and the Simulation of the Second Language Learner's Mental Operations1
The focus of this paper is on language transfer and a particular method of investigating it. Attempts to analyze the decision procedures underlying a learner's (or second language user's) attempts to structure utterances in a given target language in the light of some recent hypotheses about transfer should highlight the importance of the phenomenon and emphasise the dubiousness of a fairly standard view of transfer as a relatively simple mechani…
Learnability and Second Languages
Insights of genius
SLR today, yesterday and tomorrow
Dangerous dichotomies and misunderstandings in L2 research
This article draws attention to the obstacles created by imprecise definitions and misleading dichotomies. In this case the focus is on second language and multilingualism research literature. Despite the obvious benefits of reformulating otherwise complex ideas and approaches in simpler terms in order to distill their essential meaning, misunderstandings and misrepresentations can too easily arise. These can then proliferate within and beyond th…
Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Speech and dialogue systems (2 works)