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Sato, Edynn; Jacobs, Bob – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1992
Addresses, from a neurobiological perspective, the input-intake distinction commonly made in applied linguistics and the role of selective attention in transforming input to intake. The study places primary emphasis upon a neural structure (the nucleus reticularis thalami) that appears to be essential for selective attention. (79 references)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Attention, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes
Wolf, Alain J. E. – IRAL, 1999
Discusses aspects of context from a relevance-theoretic perspective and considers how this may lead to a better understanding of how language learners recover verbal input. Proposes that the way context is defined affects (1) the relationship between knowledge of language and context and (2) the way speakers access assumptions in everyday…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Context Effect, English (Second Language)
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Vogely, Anita Jones – Foreign Language Annals, 1998
Presents the sources and solutions of listening-comprehension anxiety as reported by foreign-language students and discusses the pedagogical implications that relate to the results. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Higher Education, Language Processing, Linguistic Input
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Kidd, Richard – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Clarifies the teaching of academic language functions (ALFs) at the secondary level. It is recommended that teaching should emphasize concepts underlyng ALFs, the forms for realizing them, and their names. Some pedagogic implications of the microfunction-macrofunction difference are outlined, and suggestions are given for teaching each type. (25…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Redington, Martin; Chater, Nick – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Proposes that an important role for connectionist research in language acquisition is analyzing what linguistic information is present in the child's input. Recent connectionist and statistical work analyzing the properties of real language corpora suggest a priori objections against the utility of distributional information are misguided. This…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Processes
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Borovsky, Arielle; Elman, Jeff – Journal of Child Language, 2006
Variations in the amount and nature of early language to which children are exposed have been linked to their subsequent ability (e.g. Huttenlocher, Haight, Bryk, Seltzer & Lyons, 1991; Hart & Risley, 1995). In three computational simulations, we explore how differences in linguistic experience can explain differences in word learning ability due…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Child Language
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Takimoto, Masahiro – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
The present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of two types of input-based instruction, consciousness-raising instruction (the consciousness-raising task only) and consciousness-raising instruction with feedback (the consciousness-raising task + reactive explicit feedback) for teaching English polite requestive forms, involving 45 Japanese…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Data Analysis, English (Second Language)
Pica, Teresa; And Others – Penn Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1990
A pilot study of a larger project on second language comprehension under two input conditions is reported. The first condition is characterized by the availability of samples of target input that have been modified a priori toward greater semantic redundancy and transparency and less complex syntax. The second condition is characterized by the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comprehension, English (Second Language), Interaction Process Analysis
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Tragant, Elsa; Muñoz, Carmen – International Journal of English Studies, 2004
After discussing the ties between language teaching and second language acquisition research, the present paper reviews the role that second language acquisition research has played on two recent pedagogical proposals. First, communicative language teaching, advocated in the early eighties, in which focus on the code was excluded, and then the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research, Grammar
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Call, Mary Emily; Sotillo, Susana M. – Hispania, 1995
Describes a study conducted to test the hypothesis that focused conversations with native speakers held on a weekly basis will contribute to the development of learners' internal grammars of Spanish. This study centered on college students as they developed an appreciation of the different contexts requiring the preterite or the imperfect tense…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Interlanguage
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Lightbown, Patsy; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
In response to Stephen D. Krashen, Patsy M. Lightbown and Manfred Pienemann argue that comprehensible input will not always be sufficient to bring about developmental change or increased accuracy in the learning environment. Krashen replies that the research shows that effects of direct instruction are typically short lasting and do not become…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Language Research, Learning Strategies
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Huttenlocher, Janellen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Examined the role of exposure to speech in children's vocabulary growth. Characterized vocabulary growth rates for children from 14 to 26 months of age. Found a relation between individual differences in vocabulary acquisition and variations in the amount of a mother's speech to her children. (BC)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Individual Differences, Infants, Language Acquisition
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De Courcy, Michele – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
This report discusses an investigation on the processes involved in the acquisition of French by students in late immersion programs in Australia. An ethnographic style of data collection was used in the study, which covered a full year. (Contains 14 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, French
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Sandhofer, Catherine M.; Smith, Linda B.; Luo, Jun – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Offers additional means of evaluating parent speech by examining frequencies of individual nouns, verbs, and descriptors, and examining the learning task presented to children. Study one examines transcripts from the CHILDES database of English-speaking parents' speech to children at five developmental levels; study two examines 50 transcripts of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Contrastive Linguistics, Databases, Developmental Stages
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Robinson, Peter – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005
This paper describes a framework for researching the Cognition Hypothesis which claims that pedagogic tasks be sequenced for learners on the basis of increases in their cognitive complexity. It distinguishes dimensions of complexity which increase the conceptual and linguistic demands tasks make on communication, so creating the conditions for L2…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Development
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