6th Applied Linguistics Webinar Session Held at TUMS

The 6th session of TUMS Applied Linguistics Webinar Series I (2021) which was hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages of Tehran University of Medical Sciences on January 9, 2021 was attended by over 300 professors, researchers, and students of applied linguistics from several countries. The keynote speaker was Dr. James P. Lantolf, Greer Professor Emeritus at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A., who delivered his talk on “Crisis in SLA: Cognitive ~ Social Divide and What to Do About It.” He expounded the crisis in terms of the relationship between cognitive orientation and the socio-cultural perspective, and proposed a potential solution grounded in Vygotsky’s theory of general psychology.