Abstract
Its analyses are oversimplistic, F&W assert, because they have generally considered the L2 acquirer as a nonnative speaker of the L2, as a learner, and as someone whose L2 repertoire and underlying grammar is an interlanguage (the psycholinguistic L2 equivalent of an idiolect in sociolinguistics, a construct to which F&W presumably also object), and as a deficient communicator, struggling to overcome an L2 competence when interacting with an idealized native speaker, who is attributed elevated status by researchers. They assert that this view is individualistic, mechanistic, and
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