TY - BOOK AU - Dwight Atkinson TI - Alternative approaches to second language acquisition SN - 9780415549257 AV - P 118.2 .A48 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Unites States of America PB - Routledge KW - LANGUAGE N1 - Includes index; Chapter1. The sociocultural approach to second language Acquisition -- Chapter2. A complexity theory approaches to second language acquisition -- Chapter3. An identity approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter4. Language socialization approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter5. A conversation-analytic approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter6. A sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition -- Chapter7. SLA after the social turn: Where cognitivism and its alternatives stand N2 - Language is a genetic inheritance, a mathematical system, a social fact, an expression of individual identity , an outcome of dialogic interaction, a social semiotic, the institutions of native speakers, a collection of memorized chunks. Language can be all of these things at once ER -