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Peer reviewedMcShane, John – Language and Communication, 1987
Discusses how a theory of language development must explain what develops and how development proceeds. Explaining what develops involves creating sequential theories of developing competence that converge to an adult theory, and explaining how development proceeds involves creating theories of the mechanisms of change responsible for movement…
Descriptors: Adults, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Metalinguistics
Peer reviewedKellerman, Eric; Yoshioka, Kaoru – Second Language Research, 1999
Responds to Kanno's article (see FL 528 536), which described studies of adult American learners of Japanese and their knowledge of two universal grammar (UG) principles and noted various lateral inconsistencies. This commentary suggests that another form of lateral inconsistency, arising from failure to replicate Kanno's findings in another adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Grammar, Japanese, Language Universals
Peer reviewedSchachter, Jacquelyn – Language Learning, 1998
From perspective of a psycholinguist, discusses three leading questions that have arisen from foundational, descriptive second-language-acquisiton studies: Why are certain L2 constructions learnable and others not?; In considering input requirements, is it fair to say that adult learners can take advantage of metalinguistic information about the…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research
