Sometimes they use it, sometimes they don’t: an epistemological discussion of L2 morphological production and its use as a competence measurementRothman, J. (2007) Sometimes they use it, sometimes they don’t: an epistemological discussion of L2 morphological production and its use as a competence measurement. Applied Linguistics, 28 (4). pp. 609-614. ISSN 1477-450X Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1093/applin/amm035 Abstract/SummaryThe main goal of all approaches to adult second language acquisition (SLA) is to accurately describe and explain the overall acquisition process. To accomplish this, SLA researchers must come to agree on some key issues. In this commentary, I defend the necessity of the competence/performance distinction and how this relates to why an examination of morphological production presents challenges for SLA research. I suggest that such a methodology is meaningful only when it is dovetailed with procedures that test for related syntactic/semantic knowledge.
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