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Direct linkMorales-Front, Alfonso; Sanz, Cristina – Second Language Research, 2021
Saussure proposed the division language/parole and argued that language can be studied as a formal system. Fifty years later Chomsky declared competence the core interest of linguistics. Although for years Generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) has adopted this view, a number of recent publications poke holes into the competence bubble.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Download full textHass, Wilbur A. – 1970
Children's language acquisition is viewed by developmental psycholinguists as a process of change in the organization of language processing operations. Normal children seem to acquire their native language by this process, rather than by eliminating specific mistakes. Preschool language develops in stages, and knowledge of where syntactic change…
Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Objectives, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
Jung, Lothar – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1977
Considers the question of how much psycholinguistics can contribute to foreign language teaching. Transformational grammar as well as behaviorist, psychobiological and development-psychological approaches are considered. These various psycholinguistic directions are sketched and examined for their applicability to foreign language teaching. (Text…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Horgan, Dianne – 1976
Spontaneous full passives and related constructions from 234 children aged 2;0 to 13;11 and elicited passives from 262 college students were analyzed. Full passives were classified as reversible (The dog was chased by the girl), instrumental non-reversible (The lamp was broken by [or with] the ball), or agentive non-reversible (The lamp was broken…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
BAUER, ERIC W. – 1966
MANY ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO DEFINE "AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD" FROM THE POINTS OF VIEW OF TWO COMPETING THEORIES OF LEARNING, THE BEHAVIORISTIC AND THE COGNITIVE. NONE HAS SUCCEEDED IN DEFINING SOME OF THE SPECIFIC TENETS TO BE ESTABLISHED FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AS REQUIRED BY AN IMPROVED THEORY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING. A FLEXIBLE AND PROGRESSIVE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Language Research
Leontev, A. A. – Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 1971
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedNey, James W. – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Discusses the structuralist and the cognitivist theories of language learning, and emphasizes the importance of practice in second language learning. (AM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedCancino, Herlinda; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
The appearance of English auxiliaries in the speech of five native speakers of Spanish is described, as well as these subjects' acquisition of the negative and interrogative transformations. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Research, Learning Processes, Negative Forms (Language)
Wexler, Kenneth; And Others – 1974
Some aspects of a theory of grammar are presented which derive from a formal theory of language acquisition. One aspect of the theory is a universal constraint on analyzability known as the Freezing Principle, which supplants a variety of constraints proposed in the literature. A second aspect of the theory is the Invariance Principle, a…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals
Extending the Psychological Theory and Educational Possibilities of Programmed Language Instruction.
Carton, Aaron Suss – 1969
The author objects to criticism of current programed language instruction (PLI) materials. In a "conventional FL (foreign language) class" of 120 class hours a year, the amount of time spent in active, immediately reinforced responding by any individual student would be less than 100 minutes. This is in contrast to the shortest PLI program (53…
Descriptors: Branching, FLES, Language Instruction, Learning Problems
Holley, Freda M. – 1972
This paper discusses various theories of the role of memory in vocabulary acquisition and storage. Several research models are described, and theoretical considerations and questions are presented. The lexicon is seen as an element of grammar; an understanding of lexicon organization is important in the understanding of vocabulary acquisition.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Distinctive Features (Language), Information Processing, Language Instruction
Wagner-Gough, Judy – 1975
This is a study of the processes involved in second language learning in which the principal subject was an Iranian child who learned English in the United States without formal instruction. Some of the questions dealt with in this study include: what motivates language learning in a child; what makes the linguistic structure of a language more or…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Allen, J.P.B., Ed.; Corder, S. Pit, Ed. – 1975
This volume is a collection of articles on various aspects of applied linguistics as it relates to language teaching. Chapter 1, by S. Pit Corder, entitled "Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching," gives a short, general survey of applied linguistics in language teaching. Chapters 2-5 give an account of the main concepts in what is now called…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grammar
Willebrand, Julia – 1978
The major approaches to language teaching (audiolingual method, generative grammar, Community Language Learning and Silent Way) are investigated to discover whether or not they are compatible in structure with an information-processing model of memory (IPM). The model of memory used was described by Roberta Klatzky in "Human Memory:…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Cognitive Processes, Generative Grammar
