MCLAUGHLIN – BAILSTOCK THE ATTENTION PROCESSING MODEL

MCLAUGHLIN – BAILSTOCK THE ATTENTION PROCESSING MODEL

1. A cognitivist theory which McLaughlin stated had a problem in comparison with Krashen's theory. consciousness is not accurate and child language acquisition is not the best.

   • McLaughlin states 2 categories: controlled and automatic.
     • Controlled processes is having a limited capacity while performing something new and it is temporary for oneself capacity-limited ability.
     • Automatic processes is the ability of the brain to manage thousands of information at the same time.

2. Second Language acquisition has conscious and subconscious processing.

   • FOCAL Intentional Attention
     • CONTROLLED: new skill, capacity limited
       • Has to deal with the grammatical explanation of a specific point, world definition, copy of a written model, the first stages of “memorizing” a dialogue among others.
     • AUTOMATIC: Well trained, practiced skill capacity is relatively unlimited
       • Covers everything related to keeping an eye out” for something, advanced l2 learner focuses on modals, clause formation, monitoring oneself while talking or writing and others.
   • PERIPHERAL Incidental Attention
     • CONTROLLED: new skill, capacity limited
       • Some of them are TPR/Natural Approach and new L2 learners successfully completes a brief conversation.
     • AUTOMATIC: Well trained, practiced skill capacity is relatively unlimited
       • Which can have features like free writes, normal conversational exchanges of some length.

3. More ways of conceptualizing the process of SLA is to compare both explicit and implicit linguistic knowledge.

   • Additionally, more models can be differ between automatic and non-automatic processing.