Original paper

A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going?

Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 190 - 205
Published: Mar 16, 2020
Abstract
If we want to understand where we are now, we need to consider where we have come from. This statement constitutes the strongest rationale for the study of history. It is relevant to any field of enquiry and it is certainly true of the field of second language acquisition (SLA). As Larsen-Freeman (2018) wrote in her own historical account of SLA ‘it is important to understand ideas at the time they originated’ (p. 56). I would add that it is...
Paper Details
Title
A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going?
Published Date
Mar 16, 2020
Volume
54
Issue
2
Pages
190 - 205
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