On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 23:29, Adam Raizen
<adam.raizen@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I disagree with that. As far as I can tell all coordinates get their ability through acquisition, sometimes in conjunction with varying degrees of learning. A coodinate bilingual who got their ability solely through learning is probably non-existent, certainly extremely rare. I'd have to reread Krashen but I believe the experimental evidence supports this. As far as compounds and acquisition, there is also a complicating factor of psychological motivation for learning the language, which seems to have a very significant effect on what kind of language input gets accepted by the student for the purpose of acquisition.
I should add that Krashen also has a component of his theory called Monitor theory, which is basically the ability to consciously apply rules (monitor one's linguistic output). Would you agree that a coordinate bilingual can necessarily use their ability orally, or would you assert if someone can pass for a native in writing but speaks non-fluently and with many foreign language mistakes, they are still a coordinate bilingual? If so we will have to clarify on our definitions some more.
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