Zusammenfassung der Ressource
“Psychology of the SLA”
- Language and the brain
- Brain Lateralization
refers to the idea that
each hemisphere of the
brain is specialized for
different functions
- Left hemisphere
- (Brocas's area)
located in the
left frontal lobe
is responsible
for the ability to
speak
- Brocas's area
damage cause
aphasia (inability to
talk)
- (Wernicke's area ) also
central to language
processing is further
back and lower in the
brain compared to
Broca's area, between
the audithory cortex and
the visual cortex
- Right hemisphere
- Principal Hemispheric specializations
- Learning processes
- Information Processing (IP)
- Concern mental
processes. Learning
language is like
learning other
domains of
knowledge
- Include perception
and the input of new
information
(formation,
organization,
regulation of internal
representations; and
retrieval and ouput
strategies.
- Theories
regarding order
of acquisition
- Multidimentional Model
- 2. Learners acquire certain
grammatical structures in a
developmental sequence.
- 3. developmental sequences
reflect how learners
overcome processing
limitations
- 1. Language istructions be
succesfully only if learners
have already mastered the
previous stage of acquisition
- Competition Model
- assumes that all linguistic
performance involves
"mapping" between external
form and internal function
- Connectionist approach
- It focus on the associations
between atimuli and responses
rather than "rules" or
restructuring
- The best-known
connectionist
approah is Parallel
Distributed
Processing (PDP)
- Connectionism
- Learning processes is
made through
associations rather than
as the abstraction of
rules or principles
- Differences in learners
- Age
- Sex
- Aptitude
- Motivation
- Cognitive Style
- Personality
- Learning Strategies
- The effects of multilingualism
- Psitive perceptions
- training the mind
- Advantages are verbal and nonverbal tasks
- Metalinguistic abilities, control of language processing
- Use languiage for verbal meditation
- Negative Perceptions
- Limitations for language
acquisition and
maintenance
- Reduce accessibility of L1