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On determining developmental stages in natural second language acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Jürgen M. Meisel ,
Harald Clahsen  and
Manfred Pienemann
Jürgen M. Meisel
Affiliation:
Universität Hamburg
Harald Clahsen
Affiliation:
Univeisität Wuppertal
Manfred Pienemann
Affiliation:
Univeisität Wuppertal
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Research on Second Language (L2) Acquisition, over the past ten years, has undergone substantial changes by shifting its focus of interest away from an analysis of linguistic structures alone, concentrating more on the learner himself or, rather, on the process of learning. It had become obvious that one of the major shortcomings in contrastive studies as well as in the usual kind of error analysis is that they lack thorough investigation of factors which determine the kind of approach a learner may take to acquire a second language. This again implies that it is more fruitful to study the process of learning itself instead of merely analysing its outputs. It is by now widely accepted that the learner takes an active part in the learning process and does not merely get trapped in structural gaps which linguists may find when comparing the source language (the learner's L1) and the target language (L2).

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Spring 1981 , pp. 109 - 135
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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