Cognitive approaches to Second Language lerning:General implicit learning mechanisms

Cognitive approaches to Second Language lerning:General implicit learning mechanisms

1. CHAPTER 4

   • Input- based emergentist perspectives
     • Botton up General to specific
   • Input-related factors
     • Frecuency,salience,redundancy,lexical,semantic context
   • Learner - related factors: associative
     • Construcction based
     • Rational
     • Examplar -driven
     • emergent
     • Dialectic
   • Processing - based perspectives
     • Processability Theory
       • We need to use the both of grammar and a processing compontent in order ro understand L2 acquisition
     • The efficiency - Driven Processor
       • EPD and first language acquisition
         • Second language acquisition
           • Empirical research on the EPD and SLA
             • How does O'Grady's work fit with other L2 theories?
             • significant deficits in working memory
           • having to process a new phonological system, to segment words and morphonoly
         • There are differences between the speed of individuals computational systems
       • Lenguage structure; typological differences between languages; acquisition phenomena
     • Claims that learning requires form-meaning connections to be made during online processing
   • Evaluation of implicit, cognitive approaches
     • The scope and achievements of research into implicit, cognitive approaches
       • The view of language
         • Learning
           • Implicit calculation of the statidtical properties of element of lenguage
         • Learner
           • The role of individual differences in the innate cognitive mechanisms discussed here requires significant research
       • There is growing evidence that form meaning connection can be learned implicity
     • Interconnections are being made between cognitive and other approaches.

2. CHAPTER 5

   • Memory systems and their role in L2 Learning
     • The role of biologically driven changes in memory and learning systems
       • Online L2 processing of morphosyntax
   • Explicit knowledge,information processing and skill acquisition
     • Defining and measuring explicit knowledge
     • Theories underlying the use of explicit knowledge in learning:skill acquisition theory
       • Description of the theory
   • Empirical research linked to information processing models
     • Associations between declaratives knowledge and learning
       • Experimental labatory and classroom research into the role of explicit knowledge
         • Learning strategies
   • Awareness and attention in second language acquisition
     • The role of noticing
       • Evidence of awareness and attention and links learning
         • What do learners attend to?Incidental attention to form and attention to form-meaning connections
           • Models of attentional resources and allocation of attention during L2 performance in production
   • Working memory and second language acquisition
     • Defining and measuring working memory
       • Models of WN used in L2 research
         • Measuring WN capacity
     • The role of WN in SLA
     • Working memory and inhibition
     • Working Memory:Fixed aptitude or trainable?
     • Evaluation og cognitive approaches Memory systems and conscious learning
       • The scope and achievements of research into memory systems and conscious learning
       • The view of language
       • The view of language learning
       • The view of the language learner