Alternative approaches to second language acquisition /
Edited by Dwight Atkinson.
- 1st Edition
- Unites States of America : Routledge, c2011
- xii, 190 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter1. The sociocultural approach to second language Acquisition -- Chapter2. A complexity theory approaches to second language acquisition -- Chapter3. An identity approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter4. Language socialization approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter5. A conversation-analytic approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter6. A sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter7. SLA after the social turn: Where cognitivism and its alternatives stand .
Language is a genetic inheritance, a mathematical system, a social fact, an expression of individual identity , an outcome of dialogic interaction, a social semiotic, the institutions of native speakers, a collection of memorized chunks. Language can be all of these things at once .