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Creative Automatization: Principles for Promoting Fluency within a Communicative Framework.

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Gatbonton, Elizabeth; Segalowitz, Norman – TESOL Quarterly, 1988

Discusses the theory and practice of a "creative automatization" process through which learners can develop the automaticity component of fluency in second language production in a classroom setting, and explains five design criteria to help teachers develop their own activities for promoting fluency within this framework. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Fluency, Learning Activities, Second Language Instruction

Psycholinguistic Approaches to SLA.

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Segalowitz, Norman; Lightbown, Patsy M. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999

Discusses issues related to psycholinguistics since second-language acquisition (SLA) research has emerged as a scientific discipline. These issues include the debate about the place of an innate universal grammar in language acquisition, basic cognitive mechanisms underlying SLA, and pedagogical implications of recent developments in the…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Language Fluency