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20. What are cognitive-interactionist and sociocultural-interactionist perspectives?
When it comes to L2 development, the phenomenon of interaction for purposes of SLA may also essentially be viewed from two perspectives as cognitive-interactionist and sociocultural-interactionist.The
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19. Who are the two early influential players in the development of interactionist perspective?
Two very early influential players in the development of an interactionist perspective on learning, including children’s acquisition of their L1, were Jean Piaget (1896–1980), a Swiss psychologist, and
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18. What is interactionism?
Lightbown and Spada (2013, p. 24) raised a third theoretical perspective: interactionist that takes into account both nurture and nature.It is important to be aware that an interactionist stance on le
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17. Why both behaviorist and innatist perspectives on SLA have limitations?
Well, they are basically mutually exclusive. They go to two extremes. Although Lightbown and Spada (2013), for example, conceded that progress could be made through immersion without direct instructio
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16. What are the implications of Noam Chomsky’s innatist perspective on second language acquisition?
Translating this perspective to the phenomenon of SLA, instruction in the language itself would effectively be unnecessary and therefore non-existent. It would not just be up to the students to sit in
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15. What are Noam Chomsky’s arguments against the behaviorist perspective on language acquisition?
Critiquing Skinner’s (1957) book on verbal behaviour, Chomsky (1959) made theassertion that the behaviourist perspective cannot account for what came to be known as “the logical problem of language ac
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14. When did Behaviorist and Innatist perspectives rise, respectively?
The psychological theoretical perspective known as behaviourism was particularly influential in the 1940s and 1950s, predominantly in the United States, and formed a strong basis for understanding how
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13. What’s Innatism?
The innatist position as posited by Chomsky was built on the belief that children have been biologically programmed to acquire language – that they possess a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) – and th
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