Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2nd ed) by Rod Ellis

Author:Rod Ellis
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780194422017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

Complex adaptive systems and L2 acquisition

Finally we turn to a group of theories: the Competition Model, Complexity Theory, usage-based theories, Dynamic Systems Theory. As these have in common the idea that language is a complex adaptive system I will not consider each of these theories separately but instead consider the general principles that underlie all of them. The theories all draw heavily on connectionist and emergentist models. That is, they reject the idea of a language acquisition device and top-down, rule-symbolic processing and instead assert that linguistic systems emerge gradually, driven by the exemplars people are exposed to in social interaction, which are processed by domain-general cognitive mechanisms such as those that regulate attention. I will consider what is meant by ‘complex’ and ‘adaptive’ and in what sense a ‘system’ arises.

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