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Ellis, Nick C. – AILA Review, 2006
This paper outlines current cognitive perspectives on second language acquisition (SLA). The Associative-Cognitive CREED holds that SLA is governed by the same principles of associative and cognitive learning that underpin the rest of human knowledge. The major principles of the framework are that SLA is Construction-based, Rational,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Native Language
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Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Argues that much of language acquisition is sequence learning and that the resultant long-term knowledge base of language sequences serves as the database for grammar acquisition. The article also proposes mechanisms to analyze sequence information that result in knowledge of underlying grammar. (184 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar