Linguistic Relativity in SLA: Toward a New Research Program

Language Learning

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 952-985

  Bylund, Emanuel ^a   Athanasopoulos, Panos ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Linguistic relativity; Second language learning; Thinking for speaking; Whorf

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908620150     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12080     Document Type: Review

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