Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning (Language Learning & Language Teaching (Ll&Lt))
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co; John Benjamins Pub.
Published: August 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789027219770
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language acquisition; Language teaching theory & methods; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; General; Memory; Psycholinguistics; Second language acquisition
Description: "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 situations."--Jacket.