A Response to Gregg.

Ellis, Rod

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Publication Date: 1990

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A Response to Gregg.

Ellis, Rod

Applied Linguistics, v11 n4 p384-91 Dec 1990

Responds to a previous article that attacks variabilists' accounts of second-language acquisition (SLA) by addressing the following issues: (1) the context dependency of theory in SLA research; (2) the competency performance distinction; (3) the problem of data in SLA research; and (4) explanations of SLA. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Models, Second Language Learning, Social Environment

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Language: English

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