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Book: The Applied Linguistic Individual

Chapter: 5 Chaos and the complexity of second language acquisition

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20858

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The first part of the book examines theoretical tensions between the social and the individual in their approaches. The objective of this chapter is to discuss the role of identity, autonomy and agency in second language acquisition (SLA). The author argues that science and myth have much in common and whatever theory we use to try to understand any phenomenon, in our case SLA, we will be offering a metaphor, a way of seeing something in terms of another.

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