Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ597400
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Item versus System Learning: Explaining Free Variation.
Ellis, Rod
Applied Linguistics, v20 n4 p460-80 Dec 1999
Provides an explanation for the existence of free variation in learner language. Argues that interlanguage is best conceptualized as sets of loose lexical networks that are gradually reorganized into a system or systems. Free variation arises when learners add items to those they have already acquired and before they analyze these items and organize them into a system. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Interlanguage, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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