12.2718, Disc: Review: Toohey, Learning English at School

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Subject: 12.2718, Disc: Review: Toohey, Learning English at School

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Date:  Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:04:04 -0500
From:  "Ronald SHEEN" <Ronald_Sheen at uqtr.uquebec.ca>
Subject:  Re: 12.2711, Review: Toohey, Learning English at School (2nd rev)

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Date:  Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:04:04 -0500
From:  "Ronald SHEEN" <Ronald_Sheen at uqtr.uquebec.ca>
Subject:  Re: 12.2711, Review: Toohey, Learning English at School (2nd rev)


Re: Linguist 12.2711


Jo Tyler in her review of Toohey, Learning English at School states that
one of the purposes of the study is to describe the development of the
linguistic competence of the children studied.  However, what is a little
puzzling is that the reviewer provides no substantive details of that
development.  Is that because Toohey does not really address the problem or
is it because Toohey does but Jo Tyler does not provide any account of it.?

One of the major issues concerns the nature of SLA based on comprehensible
input without additional language instruction.  Which situation applies
here?   And more specifically, does Toohey address the problem of the
difference between aural comprehension and oral production?
There is little doubt that exposure to meaningful language may result in
good comprehension skills.  However, whether it leads to accurate language
production is another matter and a crucial one for it is oral  production
which is the best indicator of the learners' internal grammar.". This being
so, the issue needs to be addressed in any account of the development of
linguistic competence.

So my questions are as follows:
a)  Does Toohey provide any linguistic details of the developing linguistic
competence?
b)   Does Toohey address the difference between the acquisition of aural
comprehension and oral production?
c)   Did the children receive any language instruction?  If so, what type?

Ron Sheen,  U of Quebec in Trois Rivieres, Canada.



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