A great review of Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

Posted on 02/12/2011 by alexcase

… and not only because the reviewer seems to have seen my own reaction to the book as a (failed) scientist by some weird paranormal powers:

Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics review by Mark Bain – LINK FIXED

Other great reviews on the TEFL.net reviews pages over the last couple of months (although none involving the supernatural kind of ESP as far as I know):

Listening Myths

Communicative Activities for EAP

Primary iDictionary 2 CD ROM

Essential Business Vocabulary Builder

Testbuilder for TOEFL iBT

Active Grammar 2 and 3

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2 Responses to A great review of Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

  1. Jonathan Aichele's avatar Jonathan Aichele says:
    07/12/2011 at 09:28

    Sometimes I think I am the only one who doesn’t have a problem with language being accurately described in terms of complex systems, and yet this explanation not yielding any practical imperatives for language teaching.

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  2. Alex Case's avatar Alex Case says:
    07/12/2011 at 20:28

    I don’t think even the authors would claim that they have “accurately described” language in terms of complex systems, and in fact the whole idea is meaningless. You can only decide if something is a complex system (rather than just complex) with maths and computer modelling.

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