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Lantolf, James P.; Zhang, Xian – Language Learning, 2015
We respond here to Pienemann's critique of our study that appeared earlier this year in the Language Learning Special Issue entitled "Orders and Sequences in the Acquisition of L2 Morphosyntax, 40 Years On" and guest edited by Jan Hulstijn, Rod Ellis, and Søren Eskildsen. Pienemann objected to our claim that the Teachability Hypothesis…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Ortega, Lourdes – Language Learning, 2013
The goals of this article are to appraise second language acquisition's (SLA) disciplinary progress over the last 15 years and to reflect on transdisciplinary relevance as the field has completed 40 years of existence and moves forward into the 21st century. I first identify four trends that demonstrate vibrant disciplinary progress in SLA. I then…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines
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De Diego-Balaguer, Ruth; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni – Language Learning, 2010
Studies about bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) have a long tradition within linguistic and psycholinguistic research. The contributions from psycholinguistic research are crucial to the improvement of neurolinguistic models. This importance stems from the fact that psycholinguistic research is posing more specific questions than…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Young, Richard F. – Language Learning, 2008
Practice is not meant to be understood as the opposite of theory, DeKeyser wrote; instead, practice involves specific activities in an L2 that learners engage in, deliberately, with the goal of developing knowledge of and skills in the L2. In the book "Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching," by "practice" the author means something…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Book Reviews, Second Language Instruction
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Muysken, Pieter – Language Learning, 2008
In his insightful and stimulating article, Casasanto (this issue) argues that "people who talk differently about time also think about it differently, in ways that correspond to the preferred metaphors in their native languages. Language not only reflects the structure of our temporal representations, but it can also shape those representations.…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Languages, Time Perspective, Language Processing
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Kolk, Herman – Language Learning, 2008
In his article, Wearden briefly refers to language disorders as an aspect of language that could be related to time. In this commentary, the author further elaborates on this remark, and while doing so, makes a connection to still another aspect of language related to time: tense.
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Impairments, Time Perspective, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2008
McCormack and Hoerl's state of the art review of the development of temporal concepts from the end of infancy to the end of the fifth year shows that young children's conception of time is quite different from that of adults. Adults and 5-year-old children can construe an event from a range of temporal perspectives and can describe it from a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Verbs, Child Language
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Evans, Vyvyan – Language Learning, 2008
Recent work addressing the phenomenon of perceptual simulation offers new and exciting avenues of investigating how to model knowledge representation. From the perspective of language, the simulation approach has given rise to new impetus to work on models of language understanding (e.g., Zwaan, 2004, and references therein), and provides a way of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Role, Knowledge Representation, Language Processing
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Roberts, Leah – Language Learning, 2008
Baggio presents the results of an event-related potential (ERP) study in which he examines the processing consequences of reading tense violations such as *"Afgelopen zondag lakt Vincent de kozijnen van zijn landhuis" (*"Last Sunday Vincent paints the window-frames of his country house"). The violation is arguably caused by a mismatch between the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes
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Gullberg, Marianne; Indefrey, Peter – Language Learning, 2008
In the position article to this volume, Klein outlines a set of questions that are relevant for furthering the linguist's understanding of what the cognitive and neural prerequisites for time in language might be. He also declares a certain skepticism regarding the likelihood that new methods from other disciplines will provide answers to those…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Prerequisites, Interdisciplinary Approach, Time Factors (Learning)
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Toni, Ivan – Language Learning, 2008
The article by Carota and Sirigu addresses a fundamental issue, namely the domain specificity of people's ability to learn and implement sequential structures of events. The authors review theoretical positions and empirical findings related to this issue, providing a useful summary of representative models of sequential event structures, and a…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Prediction, Models, Behavior
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Zwaan, Rolf A. – Language Learning, 2008
The purpose of this article is to propose a view of language processing, and particularly the role of aspect therein, from a mental-simulation perspective. I argue that situation model theories can account for the flow between and interconnectedness of event representations but that mental simulation theories are needed to account for the internal…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Simulation, Time Perspective, Theories
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Stevens, Gillian – Language Learning, 2006
Studies investigating the possible effects of age at immigration (a proxy for age at onset of second language learning) on second language acquisition among immigrants often explicitly take the effect of length of residence in the destination country (a measure of exposure to opportunities to learn the second language) into account. A third…
Descriptors: Age, Immigration, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Gass, Susan M. – Language Learning, 1989
An examination of second-language acquisition research assumptions argues that second language data are important to understanding the nature of language. Exploration of theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence relating to language universals indicates that research must consider how disparate facts of language are conceptually related…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Typology
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Palmer, Adrian S. – Language Learning, 1979
Presents the results of three studies that support the hypothesis that there are two types of proficiency in second language learning, "compartmentalized control" and "integrated control." Relevance to the Monitor Model and a method of teaching for integration are discussed. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Research
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