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| Learning Readiness | 1 |
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| Applied Linguistics | 1 |
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| Pienemann, Manfred | 1 |
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Peer reviewedPienemann, Manfred – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Argues that the teachability of language is constrained by what the learner is ready to acquire. The Teachability Hypothesis, based on this constraint, uses a speech processing approach to explain second language acquisition and contains important psycholinguistic information on which second language teaching methods could be based. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Learning Readiness, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics
