Complex systems and applied linguistics
"Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics introduces key concepts in complexity theory to readers concerned with language, its learning, and its use. The book demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of these concepts to a range of areas in applied linguistics including first and second lan...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford ,
c2008
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| Series: | Oxford applied linguistics
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Complexity theory: what's it all about
- 2. Complex systems
- 3. Change in complex systems
- 4. Complex systems in language and its evolution
- 5. Complex systems in first and second language development
- 6. Complex systems in discourse
- 7. Complex systems and the language classroom
- 8. Researching complex systems in applied linguistics