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400 BCE
Confessions (Augustine of Hippo)
L1 Latin vs L2 Greek -
60 BCE
Quintilian
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1300
Dante Aligheri
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1570
Benedetto Varchi
"significant [...] in the history of conceptualization of L2 aquisition" (Thomas) -
Condillac
Pre-linguistic children -
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Cartesian perspective -
Bloomfield
Sees linguistics as a science. -
Contrastive Analysis
Assigns strong role to first language.
Fries 1945 and Lado 1957 -
Period: to
Late 1960s
Confidence in Contrastive Analysis starts to wane. -
S. Pit Corder
"The significance of learner's [sic] errors." (aka one of the most ironic titles ever...) -
Duskova
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Vygotsky
Despite living from 1896-1934, it is only in 1970 that his ideas start to take hold in Europe and the Americas. -
Larry Selinker
"Interlanguage" -
Dulay and Burt
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Bailey, Madden, Krashen
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Generative Theory via Chomsky
GT gains "adherents and critics" -
White
Spanish vs French -
Bley-Vroman
Fundamental Difference Hypothesis -
Schwartz and Sprouse
"Full Transfer/Full Access"
(Counterproposals "emerged rapidly" (Thomas, 34 -
Vainkka and Young-Scholten
Minimal Trees Hypothesis -
Eubank
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Firth and Wagner
"realistically idiosyncratic, non-idealized social contexts" (Thomas, 42) -
Dekydtspotter, Sprouse, Anderson
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Vygotsky via Snyder Ohta
Amy Snyder extends Vygotsky's ideas to L2 aquistion in Japanese speakers -
O'Grady
Emergentism