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Kimura, Daisuke – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This article traces the intellectual roots and developments of the notion of competence in second language (L2) teaching and research. Since L2 teaching and research invariably concern competence of some sort (linguistic, communicative, interactional, or otherwise), there have been countless attempts to define competence from diverse theoretical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Research
Adam Liter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. We know that performance and competence do not always covary, yet it is not uncommon to assume that measurements that we take…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Techniques
Tahriri, Abdorreza – Online Submission, 2012
Acquisition in general and first language acquisition in particular is a very complex and a multifaceted phenomenon. The way that children acquire a language in a very limited period is astonishing. Various approaches have been proposed so far to account for this extraordinary phenomenon. These approaches are indeed based on various philosophical…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Development, Epistemology, Linguistic Theory
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Tosuncuoglu, Irfan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Language is seen as a system for communicative purposes and as such it involves more than just a structural organization. Indeed this view of language considers different kinds of competence which make communication really meaningful: linguistic, sociolinguistic discourse, and strategic. Linguistic competence is what we usually regard as the basis…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, Social Environment
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Eubank, Lynn; Gregg, Kevin R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
In response to Ellis (2002), which resurrects the notion that language acquisition consists of frequency-based abstraction of regularities from input, this article suggests Ellis ignores fundamental and well-known problems, including the poverty of the stimulus, cases of instantaneous acquisition, and evidence for innate knowledge. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input
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Gregg, Kevin R. – Second Language Research, 1988
Critically reviews Bonnie Schwartz' 1986 article "The Epistemological Status of Second Language Acquisition," and focuses on the applicability of the modularity thesis of Chomsky and Fodor to second language learning (L2A); and on the relationship of such a theory to Krashen's model of L2A. (LMO)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Epistemology, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Kess, Joseph F. – Language Sciences, 1976
It has usually been psycholinguistics which has accommodated itself to alterations within linguistic formulations, but now there is a growing independence on the part of many psychologists in the study of language. The shift in emphasis is from competence to performance. (POP)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance
Gleitman, Lila R. – 1967
The author raises the question of how to relate modern transformational grammars to a body of empirical fact, and suggests why paraphrasing might legitimately be considered a feature of behavior relevant to linguistic competence. This study is introduced by a discussion of the empirical basis of descriptive linguistics, followed by sections…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Language Research, Linguistic Competence
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Houston, Susan H. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Comprehension, Dialects, Generative Grammar, Language Research
Aller, Wayne K.; And Others – 1977
In a study extending and refining Carol Chomsky's research, 48 Arabic speaking children aged six, eight, and ten were tested for their comprehension of imperatives using the complement-requiring verbs Ask, Tell, and Promise. Clear support for children's overgeneralization of the minimal distance principle was found only with Promise constructions.…
Descriptors: Arabic, Child Language, Comprehension, Language Acquisition
Robinson, Jane J. – 1975
Evidence is offered to support the view that linguistic competence cannot in principle be divorced from linguistic performance in order to abstract universal properties of grammars, that rules of grammar inevitably incorporate perceptual strategies and constraints, and that grammaticality and acceptability are related to predictability. A theory…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Language Universals, Language Usage
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Braun, Carl; Klassen, Bernard – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Ethnic Studies, Language Research
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Ballard, W. L. – Linguistics, 1971
Article based on a paper presented at the Winter Linguistic Society of America meeting in New York, New York, on December 28, 1968. (VM)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Research
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Riordan, Carol J. – Journal of Phonetics, 1976
This experiment investigated the language specificity of phonetic processes. Results suggest the need for adding another language-specific level of processing to the contemporary phonology-phonetic theory. Such a phonetic competence component would define the level at which semantic intention is integrated with the functional properties of the…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Distinctive Features (Language), French
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Gumperz, John J. – Language in Society, 1972
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Competence
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