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Land, Stephen K. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Patterns
Hansen, Jacqueline; Stansfield, Charles – 1982
This paper explores the influence of field independent-dependent cognitive style on second language test performance, especially as it relates to performance on the integrative type of measure known as the cloze test. Approximately 250 college students enrolled in a first semester Spanish course formed the sample group for this correlational…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students
Carpenter, Patricia A.; Just, Marcel Adam – 1975
This research explored the fundamental processes involved in comprehending linguistic material: the duration of the process, the sequence of processes, and the sources of errors. One project examined the comprehension of affirmative and negative sentences that are read and verified with respect to a picture. A model developed to account for the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Skills, Language Tests
Crable, Elaine Ann; Johnson, David – 1976
A study was carried out to test the hypothesis that a difference exists between the results of a paradigmatic/syntagmatic word association test given in an individual's native language and in his second language. The sample used in this study consists of 23 Iranian officers attending a course at Air University in Alabama. Their primary language is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes
Tommola, Jorma – 1978
The idea of reducing the redundancy of a verbal message in a statistical way is presented as a practiced technique of language testing. Considering the temporality of speech comprehension, and the necessarily sequential intake of information, these cues may include the serial order of elements and transitional probability. To give the background…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Ability
Rivers, Wilga M. – 1972
This volume includes the following seventeen essays on foreign language teaching: (1) "Rules, Patterns, and Creativity"; (2) "Talking Off the Tops of Their Heads"; (3) "From Linguistic Competence to Communicative Competence"; (4) "Testing and Student Learning"; (5) "Contrastive Linguistics in Textbook and Classroom"; (6) "From Skill Acquisition to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
Fischer, Robert A. – 1978
Proponents of the cognitive approach to language teaching list linguistic competence as the primary instructional objective and attribute considerable importance to listening comprehension. For the student, linguistic competence would be knowledge of grammatical components of the language and its vocabulary. Understanding oral messages is an…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Duncan, Sharon E.; De Avila, Edward A. – 1978
Language Assessment Scales, Level 2 (LAS II) are used to assess the linguistic proficiency of limited-English-speaking or non-English-speaking adolescents. LAS II, like its predecessor, LAS I, provides a picture of oral linguistic proficiency based on a student's performance across four linguistic subsystems: phonemic, lexical, syntactic and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism