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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
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Huang, Becky H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
Early foreign language (FL) programmes have grown rapidly worldwide in the past two decades, resting on the assumption that "earlier is better" for learning a FL. However, the majority of empirical studies that investigated the "earlier is better" hypothesis were conducted in naturalistic immersion contexts. Given the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Age, Immersion Programs
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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)
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Stewart, Ian; McElwee, John; Ming, Siri – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2013
Language generativity can be described as the ability to produce sentences never before said, and to understand sentences never before heard. One process often cited as underlying language generativity is response generalization. However, though the latter seems to promise a technical understanding of the former at a process level, an…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Generalization, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Romaine, Suzanne – Language in Society, 1983
A discussion of whether there has been any progress in the discipline of historical linguistics focuses on the theories and recent publications of David Lightfoot and Roger Lass. The author's approaches to language change and language study are examined and compared. (MSE)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Generalization
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Beck, Maria-Luise; Eubank, Lynn – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
Caution should be taken in viewing previous research indicating that negative evidence, a special type of error correction to eliminate overgeneralizations, could be crucial to second-language learning, because the underlying theories adopted for that research possibly could be flawed. (10 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Feedback, Generalization, Language Research
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Warren, Steven F.; Kaiser, Ann P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1986
A review of research on language handicapped, disadvantaged, and other children, indicates that incidental language teaching (natural unstructured interactions between adults and children and which allow adults to transmit new information and give children practice in developing communication skills) is a promising language intervention technique…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Generalization, Incidental Learning, Interaction