Development and variation in learner language
Abstract
This study examines the relationship between variation in the
oral inter language of learners of English as a second language and
the propagation of these rules through the spread of fresh lexical
environments for their operation. It is argued that there considerable
systemacity in this process. The study then goes on to examine
the feasibility of incorporating these findings into oral proficiency
descriptions of language development and concludes that
the same data can be used more productively and predictably
from within Manfred Pienemann's Processability Theory.