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Mostafa Papi; Phil Hiver – Language Learning, 2025
Second language acquisition theory has traditionally focused on the cognitive and psycholinguistic processes involved in additional language (L2) learning. In addition, research on learner psychology has primarily centered on learners' cognitive abilities (e.g., aptitude and working memory) and internal traits or states (e.g., dispositions,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Theories, Learning Strategies, Linguistic Input
Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Learning, 2013
Instruction is motivated by the assumption that students can transfer their learning, or apply what they have learned in school to another setting. A common problem arises when the expected transfer does not take place, what has been referred to as the inert knowledge problem. More than an academic inconvenience, the failure to transfer is a major…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Inhibition, Intellectual History, Second Language Learning
Young, Richard F. – Language Learning, 2008
This chapter is framed by the three questions related to learning in Practice Theory posed by Johannes Wagner (2008): (1) What is learned?; (2) Who is learning?; and (3) Who is participating in the learning? These questions are addressed in two learning theories: Language Socialization and Situated Learning theory. In Language Socialization, the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Socialization, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory