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- Title
Sometimes They Use It, Sometimes They Dont: An Epistemological Discussion of L2 Morphological Production and Its Use as a Competence Measurement.
- Abstract
The main goal of all approaches to adult second language acquisition (SLA) is to accurately describe and explain the overall acquisition process. To accomplish this, SLA researchers must come to agree on some key issues. In this commentary, I defend the necessity of the competence/performance distinction and how this relates to why an examination of morphological production presents challenges for SLA research. I suggest that such a methodology is meaningful only when it is dovetailed with procedures that test for related syntactic/semantic knowledge.
- Subjects
SECOND language acquisition; ADULT students; COMPETENCE &; performance (Linguistics); SEMANTICS
- Publication
Applied Linguistics, 2007, Vol 28, Issue 4, p609
- ISSN
0142-6001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/applin/amm035