Diane Larsen-Freeman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Diane Larsen-Freeman is involved.
2026 Chapter 7. ‘Real people’s concerns’: Paradigm shifts in Applied Linguistics through AILA 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research, Miras, Grégory, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc and Shona Whyte (eds.), pp. 116–125 | Chapter
This article draws on written and oral exchanges between the authors in preparation for a video capsule series celebrating key figures in AILA history at the 2023 Lyon Congress. Diane Larsen-Freeman’s work on the nature of language and the learning and teaching of language needs no introduction:… read more
2025 Foreword: Explore and explain Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Approaches to Second Language Development, Lowie, Wander, Rosmawati and Vanessa De Wilde (eds.), pp. vii–x | Foreword
2020 Chapter 8. Complexity Theory: Relational systems in interaction and in interlocutor differences in second language development Cross-theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and their Individual Differences, Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura (ed.), pp. 189–208 | Chapter
Complexity theorists are interested in understanding the relations among components in a complex system and how individual differences in the components affect their relationship to other components. Specific to our interests here, the ability of speakers to adjust their speech depends on the… read more
2020 Foreword Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development, Fogal, Gary G. and Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Foreword
2018 Chapter 12. Task repetition or task iteration? It does make a difference Learning Language through Task Repetition, Bygate, Martin (ed.), pp. 311–329 | Chapter
This chapter recommends a different understanding of task “repetition” from the perspective of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). It suggests that a better term than “repetition” is “iteration”. While substituting one term for another might seem to be purely an academic exercise, doing so… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Complexity Theory: The lessons continue Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman, Ortega, Lourdes and ZhaoHong Han (eds.), pp. 11–50 | Chapter
Interest in Complexity Theory (CT) is growing. This is not surprising, considering the state of the modern world – its dynamism, interconnectivity, mobile populations, changing climate, pattern of unintentional consequences, space-time compression, and technological innovation. These qualities make… read more
2014 Chapter 9. Another step to be taken – Rethinking the end point of the interlanguage continuum Interlanguage: Forty years later, Han, ZhaoHong and Elaine Tarone (eds.), pp. 203–220 | Chapter
Larry Selinker’s Interlanguage article has had a formative role in shaping the modern-day study of second language acquisition (SLA). This chapter begins by singling out several of Selinker’s contributions to the ontology of SLA. It goes on to claim that at this point in the evolution of the study… read more
2011 Researching Second Language Development from a Dynamic Systems Theory perspective A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development: Methods and techniques, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie (eds.), pp. 5–24 | Article
2011 Review of Kretzschmar (2009): The Linguistics of Speech English World-Wide 32:2, pp. 237–242 | Review
2011 Introduction: From structure to chaos: Twenty years of modeling bilingualism Modeling Bilingualism: From Structure to Chaos, Schmid, Monika S. and Wander Lowie (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2006 6. Functional grammar: On the value and limitations of dependability, inference, and generalizability Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics: Multiple perspectives, Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff (eds.), pp. 115–133 | Chapter
1991 Research on Language Teaching Methodologies: A Review of the Past and an Agenda for the Future Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Bot, Kees de, Ralph B. Ginsberg and Claire Kramsch (eds.), pp. 119–132 | Article
