Language Socialization: The New Paradigm of Second Language Acquisition Research

doi:10.11885/j.issn.1674-5094.2019.07.20.01

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Abstract: In the field of second language acquisition(SLA),different research emphases between cognitivist perspective and sociocultural perspective are characterized as ontological and epistemological issues. Cognitivist perspective in SLA researches pays attention to the development of language learners' homogeneous language ability, which shows a tendency of desocialization. Sociocultural perspective in SLA researches mainly concerns social context of the language and the development of heterogeneous language competence of language users. The development history of language socialization paradigm shows that the first generation of language socialization studies focused on the socialization of mother tongue in small homogeneous communities in the 1980s, while the second generation of language socialization studies focused on the socialization of second language in large heterogeneous communities in the 1990s. With theoretical development and empirical researches, language socialization has covered and balanced the focuses of both the cognitive and the sociocultural researches. As it is compatible with the social and cultural theory, language socialization also serves to explain the effectiveness of language acquisition as a social intervention. As an eclectic language paradigm, language socialization, with its multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological advantages, will become the dominating paradigm of SLA.

Key words: language socialization, language acquisition, native language, second language teaching, cognitivist view of SLA, sociocultural view of SLA

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ZENG Jie, LI Jing. Language Socialization: The New Paradigm of Second Language Acquisition Research[J]. 西南石油大学学报(社会科学版), 2019, 21(6): 103-111.

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