Memory, psychology and second language learning /

Memory, psychology and second language learning /

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Author / Creator:Randall, Mick, 1946-
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Language learning & language teaching ; v. 19
Language learning and language teaching ; v. 19.
Subject:
Second language acquisition.
Psycholinguistics.
Memory.
Memory.
Psycholinguistics.
Second language acquisition.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11221538
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ISBN:9789027292148
9027292140
9789027219770
902721977X
9789027219787
9027219788
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining 'bottom-up' decoding processes as compared with 'top-down' processes as they affect memory. It also discusses second language learning from the acquisition/learning and nativist/connectionist perspectives. These ideas are then related to the methods that are used to teach second languages, primarily English, in formal classroom.
Other form:Print version: Randall, Mick, 1946- Memory, psychology and second language learning. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Acknowledgements
  • 3. Introduction
  • 4. Chapter 1. Looking critically at the Field: What sort of evidence do psychology and linguistics provide about Second language learning?
  • 5. Chapter 2. Taking in and sorting out the information: Extracting features from the spoken message
  • 6. Chapter 3. Decoding print: Processes of word recognition in a second language
  • 7. Chapter 4. Using background knowledge to interpret the message
  • 8. Chapter 5. Making sense: The structure of semantic memory and the mental lexicon
  • 9. Chapter 6. Making it stick: Learning theories applied to SL/FL learning
  • 10. Chapter 7. Second language learning methodologies and cognitive processing
  • 11. Endnote
  • 12. Workbook
  • 13. Bibliography
  • 14. Index

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