Psycholinguistics

After experiencing English 408, I am confident in my ideologies as a future educator and am excited about utilizing them in future secondary English Language Arts classrooms. At the beginning of this course, I came to the realization that there are often times a cookie cutter model teacher that administrators often look for. Even the College of Education at Michigan State has an idea of what types of teachers they want to produce, not to say that it is a bad thing, simply a philosophy on teaching

The ability to read a word is not as easy as it seems. In fact, it is a cognitively complex process that it is not only requires that the reader should know its meaning only but also other linguistic aspects. To name a little, reading a given word necessities understanding its meaning, pronunciation, form, relationship to the world such as its sense or reference along with how it is morphologically structured and syntactically functioned. So understanding such processes enable a monolingual reader

Language and customs are essential to a certain culture, making it more difficult for a person to subscribe to various cultures simultaneously. Gloria Anzaldúa, an author from the Mexican-American border, wrote an influential novel named The Borderlands/La Frontera. Her novel explains how she constantly faces cultural pressure as she speaks Chicano Spanish and English intermittently. Stuart Hall, a Jamaican cultural theorist, wrote the essay “Encoding/Decoding” to explain different cultures and their

Are there special properties of human language or can they be found in the communication systems of other creatures? Philip Tweedle This essay will discuss whether six of Hockett’s design features, which are properties of language, are exclusively human or can they be found in other creatures communications. For each of the features, the communication of wild apes, trained apes and humans will be compared. This will not be based solely on vocal communication, but explore the research

About 250 million years ago, Pangæa the supercontinent was split up and eventually settled on the current continental configuration. As civilization flourished, the inhabitants developed their own language and culture on each continent. However, trading and getting along with the neighboring communities forced many groups to learn more than their mother tongue. This pragmatic use of multilingualism is especially evident in Sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the benefits of mastering more than one language

overview of Craik and Lockhart (1972) research on the concept of “depth of processing” and Baddeley (1978), Eysenck (1978) critical review of this theory. From this literature review, it is clear that the article fits in the Study of Cognitive Psycholinguistics focusing on the factors that enable learners

Developing Knowledge My Popular Ideas: 1. The best way to learn new vocabulary is through reading. 2. Languages are mainly learned through imitation. 3. Teachers should respond to student’s error by correctly rephrasing what they have said rather than explicitly pointing out the error. 4. The best predictor is success in second language acquisition is motivation. Popular Idea #1 I agree that learning vocabulary through extensive reading is best. Extensive reading leaves students to discover

1. Lightbrown & Spada examined the influence of form-focused instruction and corrective feedback on communicative teaching. What has previous research on this topic indicated? What do we learn about this important topic based on their results and conclusions? As Lightbrown and Spada(1990) suggested that language teaching went through a major change from focusing explicitly on teaching of language to teaching language in use. Language used to be taught through its grammar, then the focus shifted

The cornerstone of the theory of learning underlying Situational language teaching is a type of behaviorist habit-learning theory. It addresses the primacy of the processes rather than the conditions of learning. As pointed out by Overton (2013), the behaviorist theory of learning is rooted in the principle of habit formation. Mistakes are prohibited so as to escape bad habit formation. In line with the character of behaviorism, the teacher is supposed to present the language orally rather than in

2.3 TYPES OF ASSESSMENT NOW The principles of good assessment are the same whatever the medium and should be considered before looking into the options for e-assessment. Some studies found no significant differences between student performance on paper and on screen (Hardré et al., 2007; Ripley 2009), whereas others indicate that paper-based and computer-based tests do not necessarily measure the same skills (Bennett 2010; Horkay et al., 2006). Though the notion of assessment is generally more