Working memory capacity in second language learning:: Evidence from the acquisition of a syntactic structure in L2 speech - Softcover

Finardi, Kyria

 
9783843351539: Working memory capacity in second language learning:: Evidence from the acquisition of a syntactic structure in L2 speech
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3843351538 ISBN 13: 9783843351539
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Working Memory Capacity and L2 Learning. This study investigated whether working memory capacity is related to the acquisition of a syntactic structure in L2 speech explained in terms of the interplay of controlled and automatic processes and the operation of a dual code cognitive system made up of a rule-based and a memory-based system. Working memory is assumed to be involved in the execution of controlled processes operating in the rule-base system. Linguistic accounts of syntactic processing are also used to explain the data. Overall results show that working memory capacity is related to the acquisition of a complex syntactic structure in L2 speech and that this process is mediated by working memory capacity operating on controlled processes in the rule-based system. Results are discussed in terms of the linguistic and psycholinguistic complexity of the syntactic structure investigated in relation to working memory capacity, processing of form versus processing of meaning, the acquisition of a rule by the rule-based system, L1 and L2 linguistic variations and constrains in L2 speech production, presenting both quantitative and qualitative data to foreground the discussion.

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Kyria Finardi had been teaching English as a foreign language forover 15 years when she decided to become a student again so aslearn how people learn in order to teach. Among the many thingsshe learned is the fact that teachers' beliefs guideteachers'actions. Therefore one way of improving teachers'actions is by analyzing teachers' beliefs.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3843351538
ISBN 13 
9783843351539
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232
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