Blurb:

This chapter focuses on a discussion of locus. It has been
widely assumed that the prime locus of language learning is the central nervous system of the individual learner. As learning certainly has to somehow affect the individual learner in this way, the chapter is trying to answer to what extent and in what sense can learning to communicate be thought of as a purely individual process. Moreover, the chapter discusses critically some currently dominant conceptualizations of learning as viewed from an alternative Vygotskyan approach.