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Lamendella, John T.; Selinker, Larry – Language Learning, 1979
Six tentative conclusions about the role of extrinsic feedback in interlanguage fossilization are presented and discussed in light of hypotheses made by Virgil and Oller regarding this phenomenon. Extrinsic factors are those characteristics of the learner which are oriented toward the environment and which act as the interface between the learner…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Feedback, Interlanguage, Language Patterns

Lamendella, John T. – Language Learning, 1977
Attempts to characterize and contrast aspects of functional organization of neuropsychological systems carrying out primary language acquisition and two types of nonprimary language acquisition: secondary language acquisition and foreign language learning. There appears an intrinsic neurofunctional basis for the greater facility of young children…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes