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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Toward a sociocognitive approach to second Llanguage acquisition
Beteiligte:
Atkinson, Dwight
Erschienen:
Wiley, 2002
Erschienen in:
The Modern Language Journal, 86 (2002) 4, Seite 525-545
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/1540-4781.00159
ISSN:
0026-7902;
1540-4781
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This article develops the notion of a sociocognitive perspective on second language acquisition (SLA), proposed as an alternative to the cognitivism pervading the field. By sociocognitive, I mean a view of language and language acquisition as simultaneously occurring and interactively constructed both “in the head” and “in the world.”First, I develop a view of language and its acquisition as social phenomena—as existing and taking place for the performance of action in the (socially‐mediated) world. Second, I describe the cognitive nature of language and its acquisition, focusing especially on recent developments in connectionism. Third, I introduce sociocognitive views of language and posit a social interpretation of connectionism as bridging the gap between cognition and social action. Fourth, I discuss sociocognitive perspectives on first language acquisition. Fifth, I describe the cognitivist biases of much SLA research, then suggest how sociocognitive approaches can help overcome them. I end by considering implications of the perspective I develop in this paper.