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The Role of Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Ellen Bialystok
Affiliation:
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to examine the hypothesis that there are fundamental differences between using language in different situations or for different purposes, and that these differences may be accounted for in terms of the requirement of the task to be solved on the basis of knowledge represented in a particular way.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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