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MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Describes the "Competition Model" (Bates and MacWhinney, 1982) dealing with second-language sentence processing by bilinguals and research that has further developed theories dealing with the model. (CB)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, Cognitive Mapping, Interlanguage
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Kilborn, Kerry; Cooreman, Ann – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Study of the probabilistic nature of processing strategies in Dutch/English bilinguals indicated that sentence interpretation in English generally paralleled that in Dutch, with divergence toward similarity in performance by English monolinguals. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Cues, Dutch, English, Language Processing
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McKenna, Michael C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
The purpose of this study was to test a specific hypothesis with regard to how cloze retrieval takes place once semantic constraints are recognized. Results from human subjects and computer simulation suggested that increase in latency between the two- and three-semantic-constraint conditions was not artifactual. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Simulation, Correlation, Graduate Students
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Piper, David – English Quarterly, 1986
Presents some personal experimental work relating to world metaphors together with that of others working in the areas of logic, psychology, and philosophy. (NKA)
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, Fiction, Language Processing
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Hoek, Dorothy; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Analysis of a one-year-old's lexical development suggested factors causing overextensions: using known words for more recently acquired or unknown words; expressing incomplete knowledge of defining features of two or more similar meaning words; producing overextensions of preferred words; using phonologically simpler more than difficult words; and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Communication Skills, Diaries
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Annis, Linda Ferrill – Journal of Experimental Education, 1985
This study investigated the effectiveness of reading only, regular note taking, and paragraph summaries for questions at the six levels of Bloom's taxonomy. Paragraph summaries were most effective at the application and analysis levels and least effective at the synthesis and evaluation levels. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Educational Psychology, Encoding (Psychology)
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Belenky, Mary Field; And Others – Journal of Education, 1985
Delineates five different ways of knowing with which 135 women who participated in a survey make sense of their experience in the world: silence, procedural knowledge, received knowledge, subjective knowledge, and constructed knowledge. Describes patterns of discourse in subjects' families and their role in intellectual development.
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Communication (Thought Transfer), Epistemology
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Pavesi, Maria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Describes a study in which English relative clauses were elicited from two groups of Italian learners: formal learners and informal learners. The results agreed with the order of acquisition predicted by the Accessibility Hierarchy (Keenan and Comrie, 1977, 1979). (Author/SED)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Incidental Learning, Intentional Learning, Interlanguage
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Van Patten, Bill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Discusses current literature dealing with the pedagogical implications of the ACTFL Provisional Proficiency Guidelines. The argument that grammatical accuracy needs to be stressed from the beginning of instruction is reviewed in the light of second language acquisition research, and it is suggested that such emphasis on grammatical correctness is…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Language Processing, Language Proficiency
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Maun, Ian – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1986
Provides a brief overview of S. Krashen's language acquisition theory. Examples of exercises on French-English cognates are provided, and the role of cognates and of exercises on them in relation to the monitor theory is discussed. (SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, English, French
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Nagle, Stephen J.; Sanders, Sara L. – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Reviews the theoretical foundations of current-second language acquisition models. Draws upon this research as well as upon various studies of memory and verbal-input processing to present a theoretical model of adult second language comprehension. Discusses the implications of comprehension theory for second-language teaching. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Attention, Language Processing, Learning Theories
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Walters, Joel; Wolf, Yuval – Language Learning, 1986
Presents some of the general goals in story grammar research and examines its major issues. Then describes a study in which the effects of text content and order on narrative recall were investigated in intermediate and advanced readers of English as a foreign language. (SED)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Language Research
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Britton, James N. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Reviews the present status of the categories developed by the Writing Research Unit at the University of London for classifying discourse function. (HOD)
Descriptors: Classification, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing
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Vosniadou, Stella; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Reports three experiments which examined preschool, first-grade, and third-grade children's understanding of metaphorical language. Subjects acted out short stories which ended in metaphorical sentences by using toys. Predictability of the story endings and the complexity of the metaphorical sentences are found to affect metaphor comprehension.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Figurative Language
Hay, John – Highway One, 1985
Discusses issues raised during the course of a research project conducted to determine the place of comprehension activities in the teaching of English, including the question of whether the development of comprehension activities has any place in the teaching of English at the 12-grade level. (DF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Theories, English Instruction
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