A dialectical reading of Dynamic Systems Theory

Karimi-Aghdam, Saeed

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“…Scholars have called for a reappraisal of CDST in order to account for the role of learner agency (Hoorie, 2015;Karimi-Aghdam, 2016;Larsen-Freeman, 2019). They argue that the current conceptualisation of CDST overplays the role of the interaction of underlying variables, while underplays the role of learner agency in determining L2 WTC.…”

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“…According to CDST, learners' L2 WTC is determined by the underlying sub-structure, that is, interaction between underlying psychological, contextual and linguistic variables. It tends to imply that learners are passive subjects of the structural changes rather than active agents capable of shaping their own L2 WTC by intervening in the process of communication (Hoorie, 2015;Karimi-Aghdam, 2016;Larsen-Freeman, 2019). For instance, talking on CDST's beach ball analogy, Hoorie (2015) argues that while the beach ball enters and leaves attractor and repeller states depending entirely on the constellation of external factors, human agents can exercise their agency to resist entering into these states.…”

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Willingness to communicate in a second language and the promise of complex dynamic systems theory: A narrative review

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Memon

Chachar

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Research in Education

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Willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) is a speaker’s voluntary engagement in communication using a target language. WTC has undergone several conceptualisations over the past twenty years or so. The aim of the current article is to present a narrative review of the major conceptual developments in research on L2 WTC. First, the article discusses the strengths and limitations of the major conceptualizations of L2 WTC, i.e. MacIntyre et al. pyramid model, Wen and Clement Chinese conceptualization, and Kang’s situational model of L2 WTC. Second, the article presents the basic features of the complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and discusses how it serves as a meta-theory with immense explanatory power to encompass the complex, dynamic and non-linear behaviour of L2 WTC. Finally, corresponding to a CDST construal of L2 WTC, the paper discusses some of the methodological developments and possible directions for future research. The article aims to contribute to language teachers’ and teacher educators’ awareness of the complex and dynamic nature of L2 WTC and provide future researchers with an alternative theoretical framework and corresponding methods to study L2 WTC.

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Willingness to communicate in a second language and the promise of complex dynamic systems theory: A narrative review

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Memon

Chachar

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Research in Education

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“…In order to chart out the current conceptual landscape of dynamic systems perspective, Witherington [2007] capitalizes mainly on Pepper's [1942] green light to "postrational eclecticism" (i.e., eclecticism after the fact) rather than "irrational eclecticism" (i.e., eclecticism before the fact) (p. 341). He advocates an integrative rapprochement between organicism and contextualism world hypotheses as the most viable reading of dynamic systems perspective of human development [see also Karimi-Aghdam, 2016a;Overton, 2007].…”

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Rethinking Vygotskian Cultural-Historical Theory in Light of Pepperian Root Metaphor Theory: Dynamic Interplay of Organicism and Contextualism

Karimi-Aghdam¹

2016

Human Development

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This article examines Vygotskian cultural-historical theory by putting it into dialogue with Stephen Pepper's root metaphor theory. I focus on Vygotsky's insistence on the dialectical unity of the phylogenetic and ontogenetic domains in ontogenesis, which he articulated in his account of how the natural-psychological and cultural-psychological lines of development merge with the emergence of speeching in ontogenesis. I compare Vygotsky's two genetic domains and Pepper's world hypotheses of organicism and contextualism. I argue that Vygotsky transcended what is often thought of as a fundamental dichotomy between organicism and contextualism. In accomplishing this effective reconciliation, Vygotsky demonstrated that it is possible both to traverse the ontological schism between subjective psychology and objective psychology, and to foreground the integrative, complex, dynamic, emergent, and mediated nature of human consciousness.

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My paper, 'A Dialectical Reading of Dynamic Systems Theory: Transcending Socialized Cognition and Cognized Social Dualism in L2 Studies' (Karimi-Aghdam, 2016), is developed with a twofold purpose: to attempt an immanent critique of the received interpretation of dynamic systems theory (DST) 1 -labelled contextual DST-where I show that, in its extant L2 studies formulation, DST is essentially a deficient approach; and to suggest an alternative construal of DST-termed dialectical DST-where I purport to make a small contribution to theorizing a comprehensive, integrative, and unified conceptual framework to understand, describe, explain, and optimize the systematic changes of an L2 learner's multifaceted language cognizance, and the psychological and sociocultural processes and mechanisms engendering and underlying those changes. My paper ( 2016) is about DST, but the longstanding division between the social and cognitive dimensions of L2

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Moving toward a Supertheory for All Seasons

Karimi-Aghdam

2016

LST

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A dialectical reading of Dynamic Systems Theory

Abstract: 1To cite this article, please use the following bibliographic specifics: Karimi-Aghdam, S. (2016). A dialectical reading of dynamic systems theory:Transcending socialized cognition and cognized social dualism in L2 studies. Language and Sociocultural

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Willingness to communicate in a second language and the promise of complex dynamic systems theory: A narrative review

Willingness to communicate in a second language and the promise of complex dynamic systems theory: A narrative review

Rethinking Vygotskian Cultural-Historical Theory in Light of Pepperian Root Metaphor Theory: Dynamic Interplay of Organicism and Contextualism

Moving toward a Supertheory for All Seasons

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