It is always important, therefore, when discussing language
teaching and language
acquisition, to remember which meaning of language we have in mind (Cook,
2007) – and there are doubtless many more meanings one could find. Sometimes
misunderstandings occur simply because people are using different meanings of ‘lan-
guage’ without realizing it. For example, an individual
native speaker may know the
English language in the psychological sense, but probably knows only a fraction of
the words in any dictionary
of the English language; students often feel frustrated
because they measure their knowledge of a language against the grammar book and
the dictionary (Lang
2
) rather than against what an individual speaker knows (Lang
5
).
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