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    A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going?

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    Authors
    Ellis, Rod
    Date
    2020
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Ellis, R. 2020. A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going? Language Teaching.
    Source Title
    Language Teaching
    DOI
    10.1017/S0261444820000038
    ISSN
    0261-4448
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80006
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press.

    If we want to understand where we are now, we need to consider where we have come from. This statement constitutes the strongest rationale for the study of history. It is relevant to any field of enquiry and it is certainly true of the field of second language acquisition (SLA). As Larsen-Freeman (2018) wrote in her own historical account of SLA 'it is important to understand ideas at the time they originated' (p. 56). I would add that it is also important to understand how the ideas that motivated a field of enquiry at one time evolved into and were sometimes replaced by ideas later on.

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