The Cognitive-Social Tension in Second Language Acquisiti...
Tezeller Arik, Beril
This study is an attempt to understand SLA studies by sketching a partial history of the field with a specific focus on the tension between cognitive and social worldviews in SLA studies. In the 1990s, this tension was revealed by two controversies between SLA researchers advocating a cognitive orientation and their critics. The first controversy was about what an SLA theory should look like-the "theory construction debate"-and the second cont...