Learning Language through Task Repetition

This chapter recommends a different understanding of task “repetition” from the perspective of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). It suggests that a better term than “repetition” is “iteration”. While substituting one term for another might seem to be purely an academic exercise, doing so actually has important implications for researchers and teachers. For one, it is an acknowledgement of the common observation that learners’ performance on tasks will never be the same from one iteration to