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Formal Linguistics and Language Education: A View from Bilingualism Research

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This chapter aims to underline the importance of bilingualism research from a formal linguistic perspective for second language pedagogy. In doing so, we highlight where the two fields of inquiry overlap with each other and offer insights into how language pedagogy can benefit from information gained by psycholinguistic studies on specific properties of grammar and its development.

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  1. Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

    Fatih Bayram & Jason Rothman

  2. Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain

    Jason Rothman

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  2. University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø), Tromsø, Norway

    Tanja Kupisch

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Bayram, F., Rothman, J. (2020). Formal Linguistics and Language Education: A View from Bilingualism Research. In: Trotzke, A., Kupisch, T. (eds) Formal Linguistics and Language Education. Educational Linguistics, vol 43. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39257-4_2

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