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Poverty of the Stimulus without Tears
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Pearl, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Poverty of the stimulus has been at the heart of ferocious and tear-filled debates at the nexus of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy for decades. This review is intended as a guide for readers without a formal linguistics or philosophy background, focusing on what poverty of the stimulus is and how it's been interpreted, which is…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Syntax, Semantics
The Type and Linguistic Foci of Oral Corrective Feedback in the L2 Classroom: A Meta-Analysis
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Brown, Dan – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Research on corrective feedback (CF), a central focus of second language acquisition (SLA), has increasingly examined how teachers employ CF in second language classrooms. Lyster and Ranta's (1997) seminal study identified six types of CF that teachers use in response to students' errors (recast, explicit correction, elicitation, clarification…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
Teaching Generative Grammar to Mentally Retarded Children: A Review and Analysis of a Decade of Behavioral Research.
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Welch, Steven J. – Mental Retardation, 1981
Research (1968-1978) on the development of generative grammar in mentally retarded students is summarized for such topics as noun pluralization and suffixes, pronouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, prepositions, interrogatives, and generalization. Unresolved issues in generalization are noted. (CL)
Descriptors: Generalization, Generative Grammar, Grammar, Language Acquisition