Transdisciplinary Approaches

Douglas Fir Group (Atkinson, D., Byrnes, H., Doran, M., Duff, P., Ellis, N., Hall, J. K., Johnson, K., Lantolf, J., Larsen–Freeman, D., Negueruela, E., Norton, B., Ortega, L., Schumann, J., Swain, M., and Tarone, E.) (2016). A transdisciplinary framework for SLA in a multilingual world. Modern Language Journal, 100, 19-47. download

‘The Five Graces Group’ (Beckner, C., Blythe, R., Bybee, J., Christiansen, M. H., Croft, W., Ellis, N. C., Holland, J., Ke, J., Larsen-Freeman, D., Schoenemann, T.) (2009). Language is a complex adaptive system. Position paper, Language Learning, 59, Supplement 1, 1-27. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Ellis, N. C. (2015).  Cognitive and social aspects of learning from usage. In Teresa Cadierno and Søren Eskildsen (Eds.), Usage-based perspectives on second language learning, pp. 49-73. Berlin: DeGruyter Mouton. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Cognitive perspectives on SLA: The Associative-Cognitive CREED.  AILA Review, 19, 100-121 download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). The Psycholinguistics of the Interaction Hypothesis. In A. Mackey and C. Polio (Eds.), Multiple Perspectives on Interaction in SLA: Second language research in Honor of Susan M. Gass. ( pp. 11-40). New York: Routledge. download

Hulstijn, J. H., Young, R. F., Ortega, L., Bigelow, M., DeKeyser, R., Ellis, N. C., Lantolf, J. P., Mackey, A., & Talmy, S. (2014). Bridging the Gap: Cognitive and social approaches to research in second language learning and teaching. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36 (3), 361-421 download

Ortega, L., Cumming, A., & Ellis, N. C (Eds.) (2013). Agendas for Language Learning Research. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-1185-9070-6. Link to online volume

Ellis, N. C. (2012). Emergentism. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics: Cognitive Approaches (General Editor Carol A. Chapelle; Area Editor Marianne Gullberg & John Williams). Wiley-Blackwell. download