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Robinson, Peter; Cadierno, Teresa; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson 2005) claims that pedagogic tasks should be sequenced for learners in an order of increasing cognitive complexity, and that along resource-directing dimensions of task demands increasing effort at conceptualization promotes more complex and grammaticized second language (L2) speech production. This article…
Descriptors: Language Research, Speech, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
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Robinson, Peter; Gilabert, Roger – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
In this paper we describe a taxonomy of task demands which distinguishes between Task Complexity, Task Condition and Task Difficulty. We then describe three theoretical claims and predictions of the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson 2001, 2003b, 2005a) concerning the effects of task complexity on: (a) language production; (b) interaction and uptake…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level, Classification, Schemata (Cognition)
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Robinson, Peter – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
Three interactive tasks, increasing in the complexity of resource-directing reasoning demands on speaker/storyteller attribution of, and linguistic reference to, the thoughts and intentions of characters in narrative stimuli were performed by Japanese L1 speakers of English. Largely consistent with the claims of the Cognition Hypothesis, results…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level, Story Telling, Japanese
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Robinson, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 2001
Describes a framework for examining the effects of the cognitive complexity of tasks on language production and learner perceptions of task difficulty, and for motivating sequencing decisions in task-based syllabuses. Results of a study of the relationship between task complexity, difficulty and production show that increasing the cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Language Proficiency, Language Research
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Robinson, Peter – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005
This paper describes a framework for researching the Cognition Hypothesis which claims that pedagogic tasks be sequenced for learners on the basis of increases in their cognitive complexity. It distinguishes dimensions of complexity which increase the conceptual and linguistic demands tasks make on communication, so creating the conditions for L2…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Development
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Robinson, Peter – Language Learning, 1995
Examines differences in oral narrative discourse of adult second-language learners of English on narrative tasks simulating the ability to describe events in the Here-and-Now versus the There-and-Then. Results indicate that complex tasks elicit less fluent, but more accurate and complex narration than do simpler tasks. (90 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Context Effect, Difficulty Level