Can Cross-Cultural Understanding Aid Second Language Acquisition? Toward a Theory of Ethno-Lingual Relativity

Bibliographic Data

ID9865512
AuthorsJames L Citron (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume78
Issue1
Pages105
Publication date1995-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispania (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/345230
OpenAlexW2026290572
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited2

This article explores the hypothesis that having a mind which is open to other ways of looking at the world may facilitate one's ability to learn a new language. The term ethno-lingual relativity is a perspec- tive that is not limited by one's own cultural and linguistic experiences, but rather is open to the contrasting cultural and linguistic patterns of other peoples. Having such a perspective might facilitate second language acquisition, in view of support for this hypothesis-drawn from second language research in language apti- tude, motivation, personality differences, social and psychological factors, acculturation theory, and pragmatic competence

Cognition · Epistemology · Linguistic relativity · Linguistics · Physics · Sociology · Theoretical physics · Theory of relativity · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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