Researching Acquisition Sequences: Idealization and De-idealization in SLA

Idealization plays a fundamental role in scientific inquiry. This article examines the case for maintaining the claim that the second language acquisition (SLA) of grammatical structures such as negation manifests identifiable stages of acquisition. It proposes that, while research has demonstrated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellis, Rod
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54391