Friday, November 14, 2008

Early concepts in Second Language Acquisition research

1950s
interference: Weinreich
compound/coordinate bilingualism: Weinreich
Contrastive Analysis, transfer: Lado
habit-formation: Lado, Bloomfield etc
phrase structure grammar: Bloomfield etc
1960s
independent grammars assumption: school of Chomsky
Language Acquisition Device: Chomsky 1964
hypothesis-testing: Corder
1970s
interlanguage: Nemser, Selinker
Error Analysis: Corder, 1971

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  1. I like the idea of having good information about the subject in your blog, also the links for the other pages that may help us in our teaching-learning experience ... well done!

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