Réponse à Wander Lowie : L’émergentisme, la recherche sur l’acquisition des langues et la didactique des langues étrangères

Abstract

The discussion of the paper of Wander Lowie presented in this contribution attempts to situate the Complex Dynamic System Theory claimed by Lowie, within the schools and theories which structure the field of Second Language Acquisition Research. The paper examines briefly some of the controversies within SLA research between cognitive and neuronal theories of language acquisition and theories focused on L2 acquisition as socialization.The paper also examines the way in which emergentist theories may contribute to the theories and practices of Language Didactics.

Keywords

• emergentism
• language acquisition
• sociocultural theory
• complexity.