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The question of how a second language is acquired has occupied the interest of scholars for millennia. Nevertheless, it seems fair to say that throughout most of history, the question of second language learning has been inextricably bound up with that of second language teaching. Indeed, until very recently, second language learning as an intellectual discipline barely existed: even the principal theoretical proposals addressing the acquisition of a second language have typically been embedded in works whose main goal is wholly practical, namely, how most effectively to teach that language.
We would like to thank Robert Bley-Vroman and Georgette Ioup for their helpful discussions with us on the subject matter of this paper.
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Newmeyer, F.J., Weinberger, S.H. (1988). The Ontogenesis of the Field of Second Language Learning Research. In: Flynn, S., O’Neil, W. (eds) Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2733-9_3
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