In:Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition
Geoff Jordan
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 8] 2004
► pp. v–xii
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Published online: 4 February 2004
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.8.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.8.toc
Table of contents
Acknowledgementsxiii
Abstractxv
The Guidelines (Abridged)xvii
Part 1. Some fundamental issues concerning the construction and assessment of theories of SLA
1. Key terms and current problems in SLA5
2. Research methodology: Rationalism and its critics19
3. Recent relativists51
4. In defence of rationalism69
5. The construction and assessment of theories of SLA87
Part 2. A critical rationalist review of some hypotheses, models and theories of SLA
6. Chomsky123
7. The role of UG in an explanation of SLA151
8. Approaches to SLA that offend the guidelines167
9. Signs of progress203
10. Explaining SLA251
Bibliography267
Name index287
Subject index291
