Language acquisition results from many expert systems working in collaboration with one another.

What is it about?

This is about the Modular Cognition Framework with special reference to the acquiring of a second or other language. It is part of a volume devoted to explaining alternative approaches to this subject, all of which are written to respond to a specific set of questions posed by the volume editors and designed for a wide readership that includes not only students of second language acquisition theory but also applied linguists, language teaching practitioners and students of multilingualism as well.

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Why is it important?

At a time when theoretical approaches to how languages are acquired under different circumstances are developing fast, it is very useful to have access to the basics of each approach to language learning as set out by experts in the field and, in this case, to the approach developed by Sharwood Smith and Truscott. This is especially important where AI cannot be relied upon to give completely accurate accounts.