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Applied Linguistics 1999 20(3):368-375; doi:10.1093/applin/20.3.368
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A response to Block's (2996) paper, 'not so fast: some thoughts on theory culling, relativism, accepted findings and the heart and soul of SLA'

R Sheen

Department of Modern Languages, University of Quebec at Trois Rivières, Trois Rivières, Quebec, Canada, G9A 5H7. E-mail: sheen@uqtr.uquebec.ca

Block (1996) is devoted to an endeavour to subject to scrutiny various aspects of research in SLA. As a part of this, he deals with the question of the status of accepted findings under the rubric of blackboxing, which refers to the practice of citing references in support of some given position. It is to this feature of the paper that this response is directed. It maintains that Block raises an important issue but fails to demonstrate the important implications thereof; it then goes on to discuss examples of unjustified blackboxing to show the relevance of the issue. Further, the response demonstrates that Block has misrepresented the author's position on blackboxing by discussing only one example of the several examples that the author has raised.


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