How to Implement Chaos Theory in SLA Classroom as a Complex System

Abstract

This paper makes an endeavor to illuminate how chaos theory can give advantages to
SLA and education. Chaos theory tries to explain how disorder contributes to order and chaos
scientists investigate how disorder gives ways to order. Thirty years ago, it was proposed in the
study of natural sciences and nowadays linguistics tends to use this model to find disorder to reach
order in SLA and educational systems since language learning is a dynamic system and a natural
process that contains order and chaos. This theory teaches teachers to expect unpredictable
phenomena in order to know how they can cope with chaotic situations. We want to have a better
understanding of what occurs in SLA classroom and whether we can predict the problematic issues
by grasping the features and principles of chaos theory and how we can reflect and what we should
expect in the classroom. We are eager to know the influence of feedback, butterfly effect, and
fractals on teaching and learning. The twelve features of chaos theory and their implications for
SLA classroom have been mentioned.