Foreign Language Learning (eBook, ePUB)

Psycholinguistic Studies on Training and Retention
Redaktion: Healy, Alice F.; Bourne Jr., Lyle E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on a research project funded by the Army Research Institute, Foreign Language Learning reports original empirical and theoretical research on foreign language acquisition and makes recommendations about applications to foreign language instruction. The ultimate goal of this project was to identify a set of psychological principles that can provide the foundation for--or at least, argumentation for--a foreign language training course. This book reviews the various studies of which the project is comprised. It begins with an overview chapter outlining the scope of the project and summarizing some of the experiments that were conducted in the laboratory. In each of the following chapters, the contributors report on previously unpublished research on selected specific psycholinguistic training principles; vocabulary and concept acquisition; language comprehension; reading processes; and bilingualism. The final chapter--prepared by a prominent expert on second language training--provides an overview and evaluation of the contribution of the research described in earlier chapters to the goal of improving instructional methods in foreign language learning.

Sandwiched between the introductory and final chapters are four major sections:
* Vocabulary and Concept Acquisition, which discusses the effect of first-language phonological configuration on lexical acquisition in a second language, contextual inference effects in foreign language vocabulary acquisition and retention, mediated processes in foreign language vocabulary acquisition and retention, and the status of the count-mass distinction in a mental grammar;
* Language Comprehension, which addresses voice communication between air traffic controllers and pilots who are nonnative speakers of English, cognitive strategies in discourse processing, and the effects of context and word order in Maasai sentence production and comprehension;
* Reading Processes, which discusses the enhancement of text comprehension through highlighting, the effect of alphabet and fluency on unitization processes in reading, and reading proficiency of bilinguals in their first and second languages; and
* Bilingualism, which addresses Stroop interference effects in bilinguals between similar and dissimilar languages, the individual differences in second language proficiency, and the hierarchical model of bilingual representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134807734
• Artikelnr.: 39042096

Autorenporträt

Alice F. Healy, Lyle E. Bourne Jr.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: A.F. Healy
L.E. Bourne
Jr.
Preface. Part I:Introductory Overview.A.F. Healy
I. Barshi
R.J. Crutcher
L. Tao
T.C. Rickard
W.R. Marmie
V.I. Schneider
A. Feldman
C.J. Buck-Gengler
S.G. Romero
N.B. Sherrod
J. Parker
L.E. Bourne
Jr.
Toward the Improvement of Training in Foreign Languages. Part II:Vocabulary and Concept Acquisition.A. Feldman
A.F. Healy
Effect of First Language Phonological Configuration on Lexical Acquisition in a Second Language. V.I. Schneider
A.F. Healy
L.E. Bourne
Jr.
Contextual Interference Effects in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention. R.J. Crutcher
The Role of Prior Knowledge in Mediating Foreign Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention: A Process Analytic Approach. M. Serwatka
A.F. Healy
On the Status of the Count-Mass Distinction in a Mental Grammar. S.E. Gathercole
A.S.C. Thorn
Phonological Short-Term Memory and Foreign Language Learning. Part III: Language Comprehension.I. Barshi
A.F. Healy
Misunderstandings in Voice Communication: Effects of Fluency in a Second Language. L. Tao
A.F. Healy
Anaphora in Language Processing: Transfer of Cognitive Strategies by Native Chinese
Dutch
English
and Japanese Speakers. I. Barshi
D. Payne
Argument Structure and Maasai Possessive Interpretation: Implications for Language Learning. M.F. St. John
M.A. Gernsbacher
Learning and Losing Syntax: Practice Makes Perfect and Frequency Builds Fortitude. Part IV: Reading Processes.J. Moravcsik
A.F Healy
Highlighting Important Words Leads to Poorer Comprehension. C.J. Buck-Gengler
S.G. Romero
A.F. Healy
L.E. Bourne
Jr.
The Effect of Alphabet and Fluency on Unitization Processes in Reading. A.T. Gesi Blanchard
Transfer Effects of First Language Proficiency on Second Language Reading. Part V:Bilingualism.M. Brauer
Stroop Interference in Bilinguals: The Role of Similarity Between the Two Languages. A. Miyake
N.P. Friedman
Individual Differences in Second Language Proficiency: Working Memory as "Language Aptitude." J.F. Kroll
E. Michael
A. Sankaranarayanan
A Model of Bilingual Representation and Its Implications for Second Language Acquisition. Part VI:Commentary. B. McLaughlin
Second-Language Learning Revisited: The Psycholinguistic Perspective.