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Date Posted: 11:41:06 10/11/05 Tue
Author: Ricardo
Subject: Re: FINAL VERSION - Citing Resources: Affective Variables In Second Language Acquisition
In reply to: Aline de Paula Alves 's message, "FINAL VERSION - Citing Resources: Affective Variables In Second Language Acquisition" on 17:09:46 10/09/05 Sun


Good work with the citations, Aline.

However, I would recommend that you try to refine the way you develop your arguments. Sometimes your text sounds confusing.

Take the following two passages, for instance:

>The second language acquisition process as a language
>development phenomenon lies under a great number of
>variables, which highly influence the entire learning
>process.

Maybe the sentence above could be broken down.

>Though highly criticized,“each of Krashen's hypotheses
>is marked by serious flaws: indefinable or ill-defined
>terms, unmotivated constructs, lack of empirical
>content and thus of falsifiability, lack of
>explanatory power” (Gregg 1984, p.94), Krashen’s
>theories are valid and easily noticeable in a
>classroom environment.

In the passage above, the textual quotation implies the opposite of the idea you want to defend. So, maybe you could write in a way that your intention and the function of the quotation is made more exlicit to your reader
(apparently it was used to illustrate the type of criticism usually made about Krashen's work).

Finally, please note that in the first quotation you use single quotation marks and in the second one you uise double quotation marks. Why? Try to keep patterns and standardized forms, ok?

Ricardo

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