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Taking a social turn for the worse: The language socialization paradigm for second language acquisition

Momoyama Gakuin University, Japan

In recent years, a number of researchers in the field of second language acquisition have voiced discontent regarding the tendency of second language acquisition (SLA) research to be conducted within a framework of cognitive science (Firth and Wagner, 1997; Atkinson, 2002; Johnson, 2004). Watson-Gegeo (2004) expresses this same discontent, and goes beyond it to call for a new SLA paradigm, the ‘language socialization paradigm’. In this article, I point out the various ways in which Watson-Gegeo has misunderstood the nature of cognitive science research in general, and SLA research in particular, and show why her call should go unheeded.

Second Language Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, 413-442 (2006)
DOI: 10.1191/0267658306sr274oa


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