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Peer reviewedStubbs, Michael – Linguistics and Education, 1995
In a response to Halliday (1993), Gee (1994) discussed the analogies between learning a language and learning in general. The article presents two of his proposals and discusses an empirical method for studying them. The article focuses on identifying the units acquired during language learning and the relevance of the concept of an innate…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
Direct linkMacWhinney, Brian – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Truscott and Sharwood Smith (henceforth T&SS) attempt to show how second language acquisition can occur without any learning. In their APT model, change depends only on the tuning of innate principles through the normal course of processing of L2. There are some features of their model that I find attractive. Specifically, their acceptance of the…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Competition
Peer reviewedBaghban, Marcia – Reading Horizons, 1986
Summarizes and updates original study done on reading and writing development of a preschool child. (SRT)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language
