On Discourse, Communication, and Fundamental Concepts in SLA Research

It was a kind of challenge to read this article. Because it's not easy to understand this article completely. But it's very useful and helpful to understand the status of some fundamental concepts in SLA, principally NNS, learner, and interlanguage.
According to the article, their ultimate goal is to argue for reconceptualization of SLA as a more theoretically and methodologically balanced enterprise. I noted that work that purpots to examine nonnative /learner discourse and communication is impaired despite many important and groundbreaking findings and theories due to imbalance of theoretical concerns and methodologies. and redress this imbalance requires three major changes in SLA: 1. an enhanced awareness of the con textual and interaction dimension of language use, 2. a increased emic sensitivity towards fundamental concepts, and 3. the broadening of the traditional SLA data base.
In discourse and communication acorrding to Chomsky linguist should establish certain general properties of human intelligence because lingusitics is simply the sub-field of psycchology that deals with thses aspect of the mind. and Gregg contends SLA theory is not only a theory of the acquistion of linguistic knowledge but a theory of the acqusition of linguistic knowlege.
I really agreed that we do not argue that such theoretical predictions or methodological practices are erroneous or flawed, rather we point out therir striking predominance within the field, leading to a general methodological bias and theoretical imbalance in SLA studies through interactive discourse.
In communication strategies, I agreed that communicative problems are likely to be recognized as problems in interaction, so it is more useful to view problems in communication as contingent social phenomena, as intersubjective entries, and not invariably as things possessed by individuals.
At conclusion remarks, language is not only a cognitive phenomenon, the product of the individual's brain; it is also fundamentally a social phenomenon, acquired and used interactively.
I'm not sure I understood this article well, I leraned a lot of things through this article and this will be basement of my tesol study.
The most impressive words to me in this article is " Native speakers and nonnative speakers are multiply handicated in conversations with one another. Varonis & Gass