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Farris, Candace; Trofimovich, Pavel; Segalowitz, Norman; Gatbonton, Elizabeth – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
This study investigated the effects of second language (L2) proficiency and task-induced cognitive workload on participants' speech production and retention of information in an environment designed to simulate the demands faced by pilots receiving instructions from air-traffic controllers. Three groups of 20 participants (one…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Segalowitz, Norman; Lightbown, Patsy M. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Discusses issues related to psycholinguistics since second-language acquisition (SLA) research has emerged as a scientific discipline. These issues include the debate about the place of an innate universal grammar in language acquisition, basic cognitive mechanisms underlying SLA, and pedagogical implications of recent developments in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Language Fluency