Integrativeness: Untenable for World Englishes Learners?

Autor/in	Coetzee-van Rooy, Susan
Titel	Integrativeness: Untenable for World Englishes Learners?
Quelle	In: World Englishes, 25 (2006) 3-4, S.437-450 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0883-2919
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-971X.2006.00479.x
Schlagwörter	Sociolinguistics; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Language Variation; Linguistic Theory; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziolinguistik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachenvielfalt; Linguistische Theorie; Ausland
Abstract	Kachru (1988) and Sridhar and Sridhar (1992) argue that the spread of English as a world language increases the types of context in which English is learnt today. The sociolinguistic realities of world Englishes learners today challenge the validity of some second-language acquisition theories. One of the theoretical limitations of existing second-language acquisition theories is the dependence upon the notion of integrativeness to explain success in second-language acquisition. In this paper, the notion of integrativeness is problematized from an empirical and theoretical perspective. The main findings are: (1) second-language acquisition theories that rely on any assumption of integrativeness should not be applied uncritically to sociolinguistic contexts where learners are acquiring a variety of world English today; (2) it seems that the concentric circle description of the sociolinguistic realities of world Englishes speakers needs to be adjusted. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10