SLA Across Disciplinary Borders: Introduction to the Special Issue
SLA Across Disciplinary Borders: Introduction to the Special Issue
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跨越学科界限的 SLA:特刊简介
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2019
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H. Byrnes
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Patricia A. Duff;H. Byrnes
IN RECENT YEARS THERE HAS BEEN considerable interest in transdisciplinary, multiperspectival accounts of second language acquisition (SLA) that attend to multilingual development and use across multiple scales: from macro-societal and ideological ones to micro-interactional ones, and across different temporal and spatial scales. Scholars have shared insights from their own and others’ diverse subspecializations and theoretical orientations with the goal of constructing a more holistic, complex, ecological understanding of language learning and use in the 21st century—with a growing focus on minority students and their languages and well-being and issues of social justice. The Douglas Fir Group (DFG, 2016) article, which appeared in the centenary issue of this journal and served as the impetus for the current special issue, was one such collaborative intellectual effort. Authors of the six main articles here, and special issue co-editor Heidi Byrnes, were among the original group of 15 DFG scholars who, over a number of meetings held at the Pennsylvania State University and in conjunction with the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2014 conference in Portland, Oregon (in a meeting room, not coincidentally, named the Douglas Fir room), co-authored the DFG (2016) article, “A Transdisciplinary Framework for SLA in a Multilingual World.” (DFG and this current collection of essays had a much longer social and intellectual history, partly traced in a