Kevin R Gregg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3445860 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kevin R Gregg |
| PRENOMES | Kevin R |
| SOBRENOME | Gregg |
| ASSINATURA | GREGG K R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Momoyama Gakuin University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Taking a social turn for the worse
In recent years, a number of researchers in the field of second language acquisition have voiced discontent regarding the tendency of second language acquisition (SLA) research to be conducted within a framework of cognitive science (Firth and Wagner, 1997; Atkinson, 2002; Johnson, 2004). Watson-Gegeo (2004) expresses this same discontent, and goes beyond it to call for a new SLA paradigm, the ‘language socialization paradigm’. In this article, I…
A response to Jordan's (2004) 'Explanatory Adequacy and Theories of Second Language Acquisition'
In a recent paper (Jordan, Geoff Jordan takes issue with some of my claims about second language acquisition (SLA) theory. Specifically, he queries the necessity of a property theory, and he finds my discussion of explanation unsatisfactory. In this brief reply, I try to answer his criticisms. In a brief but interesting paper, Geoff Jordan (2004: 539) raises the issue of explanation in SLA theory. Jordan lists the following ‘key questions’ in dis…
The state of emergentism in second language acquisition
‘Emergentism’ is the name that has recently been given to a general approach to cognition that stresses the interaction between organism and environment and that denies the existence of pre-determined, domain-specific faculties or capacities. Emergentism thus offers itself as an alternative to modular, ‘special nativist’ theories of the mind, such as theories of Universal Grammar (UG). In language acquisition, emergentists claim that simple learn…
A garden ripe for weeding
One confession deserves another: in my heart of hearts, I doubted that Lantolf was a practising postmodernist. For one thing, it was often too easy to figure out what he was saying. Still, his exposition of the postmodernist position would satisfy committed post-modernists, which is to say it gets things wrong in the same way they do
A theory for every occasion
Rationality and its Discontents in SLA
In 1993, Applied Linguistics published a special issue on theory construction in SLA, which included papers by Beretta and Crookes, Gregg, and Long. These papers, and the standard rationalist understanding of scientific research exemplified in them, have become the object of some strangely misguided and noncomprehending critiques, the latest of them being by Block (1996). In this paper we reply to Block's criticisms and show in detail how he has …
Taking Explanation Seriously; or, Let a Couple of Flowers Bloom
It is usually thought that one goal of a theory is to explain the phenomena within the theory's domain. Hence one criterion for assessing a putative theory of second language acquisition (SLA), for instance, or for assessing SLA research conducted within a given theoretical perspective, is the degree to which it can be seen as a successful contribution to such an explanation. Unfortunately, a good deal of SLA research has been less than thoroughg…
The Variable Competence Model of Second Language Acquisition, and Why It Isn't
In this paper I examine the work of the two scholars who have made the greatest contribution to the variabilist perspective on second language acquisition (SLA) and, more specifically, discuss the acquisition models each has proposed: Elaine Tarone's ‘Capability Continuum Paradigm’, and Rod Ellis's ‘Variable Competence Model’. I give a brief outline of Tarone's and Ellis's proposals, pointing out certain common features of the two models and indi…
The Input Hypothesis
Krashen's Monitor and Occam's Razar
Journal Article Krashen's Monitor and Occam's Razar Get access KEVIN R. GREGG KEVIN R. GREGG Matsuyama UniversityMatsuyama, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 5, Issue 2, Summer 1984, Pages 79–100, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/5.2.79 Published: 01 July 1984 Article history Received: 01 May 1983 Published: 01 July 1984
The Input Hypothesis
The state of emergentism in second language acquisition
‘Emergentism’ is the name that has recently been given to a general approach to cognition that stresses the interaction between organism and environment and that denies the existence of pre-determined, domain-specific faculties or capacities. Emergentism thus offers itself as an alternative to modular, ‘special nativist’ theories of the mind, such as theories of Universal Grammar (UG). In language acquisition, emergentists claim that simple learn…
A garden ripe for weeding
One confession deserves another: in my heart of hearts, I doubted that Lantolf was a practising postmodernist. For one thing, it was often too easy to figure out what he was saying. Still, his exposition of the postmodernist position would satisfy committed post-modernists, which is to say it gets things wrong in the same way they do
A theory for every occasion
Krashen's Monitor and Occam's Razar
Journal Article Krashen's Monitor and Occam's Razar Get access KEVIN R. GREGG KEVIN R. GREGG Matsuyama UniversityMatsuyama, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 5, Issue 2, Summer 1984, Pages 79–100, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/5.2.79 Published: 01 July 1984 Article history Received: 01 May 1983 Published: 01 July 1984
The Input Hypothesis
The Variable Competence Model of Second Language Acquisition, and Why It Isn't
In this paper I examine the work of the two scholars who have made the greatest contribution to the variabilist perspective on second language acquisition (SLA) and, more specifically, discuss the acquisition models each has proposed: Elaine Tarone's ‘Capability Continuum Paradigm’, and Rod Ellis's ‘Variable Competence Model’. I give a brief outline of Tarone's and Ellis's proposals, pointing out certain common features of the two models and indi…
Taking Explanation Seriously; or, Let a Couple of Flowers Bloom
It is usually thought that one goal of a theory is to explain the phenomena within the theory's domain. Hence one criterion for assessing a putative theory of second language acquisition (SLA), for instance, or for assessing SLA research conducted within a given theoretical perspective, is the degree to which it can be seen as a successful contribution to such an explanation. Unfortunately, a good deal of SLA research has been less than thoroughg…
Rationality and its Discontents in SLA
In 1993, Applied Linguistics published a special issue on theory construction in SLA, which included papers by Beretta and Crookes, Gregg, and Long. These papers, and the standard rationalist understanding of scientific research exemplified in them, have become the object of some strangely misguided and noncomprehending critiques, the latest of them being by Block (1996). In this paper we reply to Block's criticisms and show in detail how he has …
A theory for every occasion
A garden ripe for weeding
One confession deserves another: in my heart of hearts, I doubted that Lantolf was a practising postmodernist. For one thing, it was often too easy to figure out what he was saying. Still, his exposition of the postmodernist position would satisfy committed post-modernists, which is to say it gets things wrong in the same way they do
The state of emergentism in second language acquisition
‘Emergentism’ is the name that has recently been given to a general approach to cognition that stresses the interaction between organism and environment and that denies the existence of pre-determined, domain-specific faculties or capacities. Emergentism thus offers itself as an alternative to modular, ‘special nativist’ theories of the mind, such as theories of Universal Grammar (UG). In language acquisition, emergentists claim that simple learn…
A response to Jordan's (2004) 'Explanatory Adequacy and Theories of Second Language Acquisition'
In a recent paper (Jordan, Geoff Jordan takes issue with some of my claims about second language acquisition (SLA) theory. Specifically, he queries the necessity of a property theory, and he finds my discussion of explanation unsatisfactory. In this brief reply, I try to answer his criticisms. In a brief but interesting paper, Geoff Jordan (2004: 539) raises the issue of explanation in SLA theory. Jordan lists the following ‘key questions’ in dis…
Taking a social turn for the worse
In recent years, a number of researchers in the field of second language acquisition have voiced discontent regarding the tendency of second language acquisition (SLA) research to be conducted within a framework of cognitive science (Firth and Wagner, 1997; Atkinson, 2002; Johnson, 2004). Watson-Gegeo (2004) expresses this same discontent, and goes beyond it to call for a new SLA paradigm, the ‘language socialization paradigm’. In this article, I…
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