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Anderson, Jason (2020) A response to Ellis : the dangers of a narrowly focused SLA canon. ELT Journal, 74 (2). pp. 195-197. doi:10.1093/elt/ccaa016
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccaa016
Abstract
I thank Rod Ellis (2020) for taking time to read and respond to my critique of his original work (2019). However, while he grasps some of the aspects of the TATE framework that I propose as an alternative (Anderson 2020), there is evidence in his response that he misconstrues it, and assigns my nuanced discussion of explicit and implicit processes within what I called a ‘TSLT-mainly framework’ (p. 183) to the category of ‘structural approach’, which he then argues is not as effective as his proposal, drawing on familiar arguments used against structural approaches. First I consider his responses to my two criticisms of his model, and then I sound a word of caution regarding the dangers of a narrowly-focused SLA canon that frequently interprets ‘learning’ as acquisition of morphosyntax, and ‘use’ as spoken production to the detriment of other aspects of language.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > PE English |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ellis, R. -- Criticism and interpretation, Second language acquisition , Language and languages -- Study and teaching, Curriculum change | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | ELT Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0951-0893 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2 April 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 74 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 195-197 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/elt/ccaa016 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in ELT Journal following peer review. The version of record Jason Anderson, A Response to Ellis: The Dangers of a Narrowly Focused SLA Canon, ELT Journal, Volume 74, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 195–197, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccaa016 | ||||||||
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