Resumen de ‘Not waving but drowing’: a reply to Tony Ridgway
Strategic approaches to second-language skills acquisition offer an easy target, given the inconclusive nature of much of the research in this area, a certain amount of terminological confusion, and the haphazard taxonomies that have been proposed. But it is unfair to blame the message for the package in which it comes, and Tony Ridgway is hasty in dismissing the concept of strategy instruction as readily as he does. He is also prone to overlook the ideas of those (among them, myself) who adopt a more pragmatic task-driven approach to the issue. And, while I endorse the points that he makes about the nature of the listening skill, the conclusions that I draw in respect of the L2 listener are very different from his.
