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LEARNER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LANGUAGE LEARNING: NEW DIRECTIONS IN RESEARCH. Michael P. Breen (Ed.). Harlow, UK: Pearson Education, 2001. Pp. xxii + 218. £19.99 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2003

Andrew D. Cohen
Andrew D. Cohen
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University of Minnesota
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Abstract

In some ways the preface to this volume, by Chris Candlin, preempts this review. He makes some insightful points that a dutiful reviewer would otherwise have made. This volume of original chapters reflects Breen's concern for the learner as a cognitive, human, and social being. As Candlin rightly points out, the volume provides a positive and creative accommodation of research paradigms that come from both cognitive and social traditions such that the volume constitutes a so-called sociocognitive position: “the interplay between communication as both a socially and a cognitively strategic act” (p. xix).

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Book Review
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 161 - 163
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2003 Cambridge University Press

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