Cook, V.J. (2007). Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction (3rd Edition). Blackwell Publishing.
In Kapitel 6, Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar (pp. 221-241), wird Chomskys Standpunkt zu SLA beschrieben und mit seinen eigenen Worten illustriert.
"Linguistic Theory is concerned with an ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community" (Chomsky, 1965, p.4).
"To say that people speak different languages is a bit like saying they live in different palaces or look different, notions that are perfectly useful for ordinary life, but are highly interest-relative. We say that a person speaks several languages, rather than several varieties of one, if the differences matter for some purpose or interest" (Chomsky, 2000a, pp. 43-4).
"It must be recognized that one does not learn the grammatical structure of a second language through explanation and instruction beyond the most elementary rudiments, for the simple reason that no one has enough explicity knowledge about this structure to provide explanation and instruction" (Chomsky, 1969, reprinted in Chomsky, 1972a, pp. 174-5)
About the audio-lingual method: "[T]hese principles are not merely inadequate but probably misconceived" (Chomsky, 1966b, p. 153).
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