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Theory construction in second language acquisition /
Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Language learning and language teaching ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress towards a unified theory of SLA. Theory Construction in SLA addresses these problems by returning to first principles; it asks whether there is such a thing as reliable knowledge, what is special about scientific method, and how we can best explain SLA. It is the first book to use the philosophy of sc. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027295767 902729576X 9789027217059 902721705X 9789027217066 9027217068 9781588114815 1588114813 9781588114822 1588114821 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9471 ; |