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Implicit and Explicit Processes.

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MacWhinney, Brian – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997

Comments on changes in the relation between experimental psychology and second language acquisition research. Notes that new themes borrowed from experimental psychology include practice effects, the power law, connectionism, implicit learning and miniature artificial languages. Argues that attempts to attribute language learning to implicit or…

Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Change Agents, Experimental Psychology, Language Processing

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