Rationality and its Discontents in SLA

Kevin R. Gregg · Michael H. Long · G. Jordan · A. BERTTA

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In 1993, Applied Linguistics published a special issue on theory construction in SLA, which included papers by Beretta and Crookes, Gregg, and Long. These papers, and the standard rationalist understanding of scientific research exemplified in them, have become the object of some strangely misguided and noncomprehending critiques, the latest of them being by Block (1996). In this paper we reply to Block's criticisms and show in detail how he has misunderstood the issues. I take science philosophically seriously, good science is as close as we ever get to the literal truth about how things are (Fodor 1996 20).

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