The Competence-Performance Issue in Second-Language Acquisition Theory: A Debate

One of the ways in which a discipline advances is through scholarly debate. When the proponents of different sides of an issue can confront each other with proposals, critiques, and counterproposals, it is possible to highlight the distinctions among the positions and to focus on the facts and argumentation that would decide the issue one way or the other. And out of such debate distills progress.