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Hamrick, Phillip – Language Learning, 2014
Humans are remarkably sensitive to the statistical structure of language. However, different mechanisms have been proposed to account for such statistical sensitivities. The present study compared adult learning of syntax and the ability of two models of statistical learning to simulate human performance: Simple Recurrent Networks, which learn by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Role, Syntax, Computational Linguistics
Linck, Jared A.; Hughes, Meredith M.; Campbell, Susan G.; Silbert, Noah H.; Tare, Medha; Jackson, Scott R.; Smith, Benjamin K.; Bunting, Michael F.; Doughty, Catherine J. – Language Learning, 2013
Few adult second language (L2) learners successfully attain high-level proficiency. Although decades of research on beginning to intermediate stages of L2 learning have identified a number of predictors of the rate of acquisition, little research has examined factors relevant to predicting very high levels of L2 proficiency. The current study,…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Sagarra, Nuria; Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
Adult learners have persistent difficulty processing second language (L2) inflectional morphology. We investigate associative learning explanations that involve the blocking of later experienced cues by earlier learned ones in the first language (L1; i.e., transfer) and the L2 (i.e., proficiency). Sagarra (2008) and Ellis and Sagarra (2010b) found…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
The current study investigates the limited attainment of adult language acquisition in terms of an associative learning phenomenon whereby earlier learned cues attentionally block those that are experienced later. Short- and long-term blocking are demonstrated in experimental investigations of learned attention in the acquisition of temporal…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Associative Learning, Early Experience
Durrant, Philip; Schmitt, Norbert – Second Language Research, 2010
Formulaic language is widely recognized to be of central importance to fluent and idiomatic language use. However, the mechanics of how formulaic language is acquired are not well understood. Some researchers (e.g. Nick Ellis) believe that the chunking inherent in formulaic language drives the language learning process. Others (e.g. Wray) claim…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Adults, Learning Processes
Masterson, Jackie; Hayes, Maureen – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
Author and book title recognition tests have been used extensively in reading-related research with both children and adults. The present paper reports the development of a book title and author recognition test and data from a UK sample of adults. Higher scores were obtained on the Author test than on the Title test. It is suggested that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Programs, Adult Learning, Recognition (Psychology)

Pressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Elaborative interrogation was compared to the construction of imaginary representations to determine its efficacy in fact learning. Four experiments, involving a total of 260 undergraduate students, indicated that elaborative interrogation is equally as powerful a learning procedure as is imaginary representation and that both are useful during…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Associative Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Perry, Sally-Anne – 2000
A practitioner's model of the processes of learning and knowing was developed through a review of global, societal, individual, and personal perspectives on learning. The first phase of the model's development consisted of using a method of exploration based on determining who, what, where, when, why, and how to investigate the following 10…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Associative Learning
Luciani, Teresa – 2001
This bibliography with 1,273 entries is an updated supplement to the preliminary 1997 bibliography on informal adult learning. It is a useful resource guide for those interested in publications (e.g. academic papers, government reports, grassroots publications) aimed at furthering understanding of how learning and teaching takes place in different…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Associative Learning