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Yale Language Series MARYSIA JOHNSON Arizona State University Department of English Linguistics/TESL Program A Philosophy of Second Language Acquisition Yale University Press New Haven & London Copyright ∫ 2004 by Yale University. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Publisher: Mary Jane Peluso Editorial Assistant: Gretchen Rings Manuscript Editor: Jane Zanichkowsky Production Editor: Margaret Otzel Marketing Manager: Tim Shea Production Coordinator: Aldo Cupo Set in Minion type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by Vail Ballou Press, Binghamton, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Marysia, 1958– A philosophy of second language acquisition / Marysia Johnson. p. cm. — (Yale language series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-300-10026-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Second language acquisition. I. Title. II. Series. P118.2.J645 2003 418%.001%9—dc21 2003053549 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my mother Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: Following the Cognitive Tradition 7 1. Three Major Scientiﬁc Research Traditions 9 2. Behaviorism and Second Language Learning 18 3. The Cognitive Tradition and Second Language Acquisition 30 4. Information Processing Models 46 5. Communicative Competence Versus Interactional Competence 85 Part Two: A Dialogical Approach to SLA 101 6. Fundamental Principles of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory 103 7. Bakhtin’s Dialogized Heteroglossia 120 8. Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning 129 vii viii Contents 9. Building a New Model of Second Language Acquisition 170 Bibliography 191 Index 203 Acknowledgments I would like to thank my publisher, Mary Jane Peluso, for her support and guidance. I shall forever remain grateful for her generous spirit and wisdom. I am deeply grateful to Fred Davidson and Jean Turner for their invaluable suggestions and comments on my manuscript and for their continuing support, encouragement, and friendship—for their dialogic inspiration. Finally, I thank the anonymous reviewers of my book proposal and ﬁnal manuscript for their comments and suggestions. ix