Beyond the Brain: Intercorporeality and Co-Operative Action for SLA Studies.

Autor/in	Atkinson, Dwight
Titel	Beyond the Brain: Intercorporeality and Co-Operative Action for SLA Studies.
Quelle	In: The modern language journal, 103 (2019) 4, S. 724-738Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-7902
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Kognition; Zweitsprachenerwerbsforschung; Forschungskritik
Abstract	It is widely assumed that the cognitivist era is over in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) studies. This critical review essay (a) questions this assumption, (b) presents alternative views from beyond the field to help it move in a noncognitivist direction, and (c) discusses prospects for a noncognitivist future in SLA studies. The author begins by briefly reviewing the history of cognitivism, by which he means a mind/brain-centric view of human existence and behavior. He then argues that SLA studies remain under cognitivist influence. Next, he reviews 2 recent books that offer strong theoretical and empirical bases for studying the embodied, affective, social, and ecological nature of human action, including learning and teaching. The first book, Meyer, Streeck, and Jordan's (2017) co-edited Intercorporeality, explores the consequences of being a body in a world of other such bodies, versus the cognitivist vision of disembodied mind/brain. The second book, Goodwin's (2018a) Co-operative Action, develops and empirically illustrates a theory of social action wherein heterogeneous, multimodal cultural tools and practices including language combine, accumulate, and transform in moment-to-moment use. Both books view human existence and action as fundamentally "ecosocial"-embodied, affective, and adaptive to human and nonhuman environments-yet they differ markedly in content and implications. Goodwin's painstaking empirical analyses, for instance, including of teaching and learning, show co-operative action unfolding in real time. The author concludes by discussing current developments in SLA studies that point toward a noncognitive future for the field. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Update	2022/2