Open AccessDwie tradycje badawcze w językoznawstwie stosowanym dotyczącym języka drugiego
Author(s) -
Aniżegorodcew
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
neofilolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2545-3971
pISSN - 1429-2173
DOI - 10.14746/n.2009.32.2
Subject(s) - psycholinguistics , sociocultural evolution , linguistics , acculturation , applied linguistics , second language acquisition , sociology , historical linguistics , philology , field (mathematics) , theoretical linguistics , psychology , anthropology , philosophy , feminism , gender studies , mathematics , cognition , neuroscience , ethnic group , pure mathematics
The present paper presents two theoretical and research traditions concerning second language acquisition and use: psycholinguistic and sociocultural ones. It provides a historical overview of the field of psycholinguistics and second language acquisition studies since the 1950s with its more recent critiquefrom the representatives of the sociocultural developments in second language theory. The quantitative and qualitative research approaches in contemporary L2 applied linguistics studies are illustrated with a recent study of the acculturation process of Polish immigrants in the United Kingdom done by an MA student.