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Updating the interlanguage hypothesis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Larry Selinker  and
John T. Lamendella
Larry Selinker
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
John T. Lamendella
Affiliation:
San Jose State University
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The first public presentation of the ideas leading up to the Interlanguage (IL) Hypothesis occurred a decade ago at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics (Selinker 1969; presented in greater detail in Selinker 1972). At that time, it was stated that, in attempting to understand the phenomenon of second-language learning, the field was at a stage where there existed an “inability to unambiguously identify the phenomena we wish to study” (Selinker 1969:35). That first presentation of the IL notion focused on the “psychologically relevant data of second-language learning,” trying to describe what it was that should be studied; the paper attempted to provide some theoretical constructs which would help identify and explain that data.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Spring 1981 , pp. 201 - 220
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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