SLA Models and Issues
Acquisition of Semantics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24220625 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norbert Dittmar |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 54-71 |
| Publication date | 1988-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-1905 • E-ISSN: 1471-6356 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0267190500000805 |
| OpenAlex | W2165497626 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Semantic aspects of learner varieties have only recently gained the interest of second language acquistion [SLA] researchers. This is partly a consequence of some shifts in SLA theory and partly due to the discussion of “form” and “function” and the notions “pragmatics” and “semantics” in linguistic theory. There are two corollaries in recent SLA research: interlanguages should be described on the basis of their use in real communication situations, and the process of learning (strategies and stages in course of acquisition) should be the focus of empirical work. (For a discussion of process and product cf., Dittmar 1984.) As a matter of fact, the present standard paradigm in SLA is the description of learner varieties “outside the classroom” with a focus on “learning without explicit teaching” (also known by the somewhat misleading term undirected learning ) under natural conditions of communication with an emphasis on cross-sectional studies in the seventies (cf., Klein and Dittmar 1979) and on longi- tudinal research in the eighties (cf., Perdue 1982).
acquisition strategy · Cross-sectional study · Form and function · Interlanguage · learner varieties · Longitudinal study · Pragmatics · second language acquisition · Semantics · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Linguistics and Language Analysis · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |