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Sequential Event Processing: Domain Specificity or Task Specificity? Commentary on Carota and Sirigu
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Toni, Ivan – Language Learning, 2008
The article by Carota and Sirigu addresses a fundamental issue, namely the domain specificity of people's ability to learn and implement sequential structures of events. The authors review theoretical positions and empirical findings related to this issue, providing a useful summary of representative models of sequential event structures, and a…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Prediction, Models, Behavior
A Response to McLaughlin, "The Monitor Model: Some Methodological Considerations".
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Krashen, Stephen B. – Language Learning, 1979
Replies to McLaughlin's (l978) critique of the Krashen (1975, 1977) Monitor Model of language learning, presenting rebuttals to major attacks, followed by a discussion of minor issues. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Learning Processes
The Relationship of Pidginization, Creolization and Decreolization to Second Language Acquisition.
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Schumann, John H. – Language Learning, 1978
Presents arguments for the view that pidginization can be a model of early second language acquisition, decreolization can be a model for later second language acquisition, and creolization is inappropriate for any aspect of this process. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Creoles, Interlanguage, Language Research
The Monitor Model: Some Methodological Considerations.
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McLaughlin, Barry – Language Learning, 1978
Examines the Monitor Model of adult second language acquisition, and presents an alternate model that avoids difficulties inherent in the Monitor Model and that corresponds to contemporary language development theory. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research