The Road to Fluency

[Lisa LeBlanc]

In a message dated 10/28/99 8:17:35 PM, lonning at csd.uwm.edu writes:

<< mastery certainly
may never occur if the leaner only approaches the task of second language
"acquisition"/aquaintance with the notion of merely using the L2 as a
T O O L with which to act upon his environment to one degree or another. >>

Then there are those who believe that mastery can BEST occur if the learner
approaches the acquisition of L2 as a tool with which to act upon their
environment.  Why else do humans learn language?????   What other reason is
there?

L. LeBlanc, Ph.D.
Western Michigan University