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From Play to Language: Infants' Actions on Objects Cascade to Word Learning
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Suarez-Rivera, Catalina; Linn, Emily; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Language Learning, 2022
Infants build knowledge by acting on the world. We conducted an ecologically grounded test of an embodied learning hypothesis: that infants' active engagement with objects in the home environment elicits caregiver naming and cascades to learning object names. Our home-based study extends laboratory-based theories to identify real-world processes…
Descriptors: Infants, Video Technology, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship
A Theoretical Model of Second Language Learning.
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Bialystok, Ellen – Language Learning, 1978
Proposes a model of second language learning that accounts for discrepancies both in individual achievement and achievement in different aspects of language learning. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Achievement, Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Is Implicational Generalization Unidirectional and Maximal? Evidence from Relativization Instruction in a Second Language.
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Hamilton, Robert L. – Language Learning, 1994
Analyses of sentence combination data from 33 adult learners of English as a Second Language instructed in sentence combination tasks yielded inconclusive results as to whether implicational generalization (IG) is unidirectional to hierarchy levels implicated by the instructed level. The results suggest that IG is clearly not uniformly maximal to…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Generalization, Language Research
A Response to McLaughlin, "The Monitor Model: Some Methodological Considerations".
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Krashen, Stephen B. – Language Learning, 1979
Replies to McLaughlin's (l978) critique of the Krashen (1975, 1977) Monitor Model of language learning, presenting rebuttals to major attacks, followed by a discussion of minor issues. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Processes
The Relationship of Pidginization, Creolization and Decreolization to Second Language Acquisition.
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Schumann, John H. – Language Learning, 1978
Presents arguments for the view that pidginization can be a model of early second language acquisition, decreolization can be a model for later second language acquisition, and creolization is inappropriate for any aspect of this process. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Creoles, Interlanguage, Language Research
The Effect of Affect on Foreign Language Learning: A Review of the Anxiety Research.
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Scovel, Thomas – Language Learning, 1978
Examines the research on affective variables as they relate to language learning, with particular attention to anxiety. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Cognitive Style, Individual Characteristics
The Monitor Model: Some Methodological Considerations.
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McLaughlin, Barry – Language Learning, 1978
Examines the Monitor Model of adult second language acquisition, and presents an alternate model that avoids difficulties inherent in the Monitor Model and that corresponds to contemporary language development theory. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research
Individual Differences and the Fundamental Similarity of Implicit and Explicit Adult Second Language Learning.
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Robinson, Peter – Language Learning, 1997
Examines claims that unconscious second language learning under implicit and incidental conditions is insensitive to measures of individual differences in cognitive abilities, in contrast to learning under conscious rule-search and instructed conditions. Findings revealed that only in the incidental condition was the extent of learning and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Ability