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In this chapter, we provide a brief introduction to recent work in linguistics that has its origin and motivation in formal linguistics and theoretical acquisition research, and on this basis indicates potential connections and contributions to language pedagogy, including students’ and teachers’ beliefs about what ‘grammar’ actually is.
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Trotzke, A., Kupisch, T. (2020). Formal Linguistics and Language Education: Bridging the Gap. In: Trotzke, A., Kupisch, T. (eds) Formal Linguistics and Language Education. Educational Linguistics, vol 43. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39257-4_1
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