Is Language Teachable? Psycholinguistic Experiments and Hypotheses.

Pienemann, Manfred

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Publication Date: 1989

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Is Language Teachable? Psycholinguistic Experiments and Hypotheses.

Pienemann, Manfred

Applied Linguistics, v10 n1 p52-79 Mar 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, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Models

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Language: English

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