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Applying the Competition Model to Bilingualism.

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MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987

Describes the "Competition Model" (Bates and MacWhinney, 1982) dealing with second-language sentence processing by bilinguals and research that has further developed theories dealing with the model. (CB)

Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, Cognitive Mapping, Interlanguage

Language-Specific Prediction in Foreign Language Learning.

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MacWhinney, Brian – Language Testing, 1995

Reviews factors influencing reversals of expectations for language-learning outcomes. This article touches on psychological and neurological data regarding individual differences in language-learning mechanisms and focuses on cross-linguistic psycholinguistic analysis that indicates that different target languages offer a wide variety of learning…

Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Data Analysis, Individual Differences, Language Aptitude