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  2. Cognitive linguistics - Wikipedia

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    The roots of cognitive linguistics are in Noam Chomsky's 1959 critical review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior.Chomsky's rejection of behavioural psychology and his subsequent anti-behaviourist activity helped bring about a shift of focus from empiricism to mentalism in psychology under the new concepts of cognitive psychology and cognitive science.

  3. Theories of second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Connectionism attempts to model the cognitive language processing of the human brain, using computer architectures that make associations between elements of language, based on frequency of co-occurrence in the language input. [14] Frequency has been found to be a factor in various linguistic domains of language learning. [15]

  4. Processability theory - Wikipedia

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    Processability theory (PT) is a cognitive approach to second language acquisition that seeks to explain developmental schedules as well as learner variation. It is based on Levelt’s (1989) approach to language generation and is formally operationalized using Lexical-Functional Grammar (Bresnan 2001).

  5. Usage-based models of language - Wikipedia

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    Hans-Jörg Schmid’s "Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization" Model offers a comprehensive recent summary approach to usage-based thinking. [19] In great detail and with reference to many sub-disciplines and concepts in linguistics he shows how usage mediates between entrenchment, the establishment of linguistic habits in individuals via repetition and associations, and conventionalization, a ...

  6. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    The proponents of these theories argue that general cognitive processes subserve language acquisition and that the result of these processes is language-specific phenomena, such as word learning and grammar acquisition. The findings of many empirical studies support the predictions of these theories, suggesting that language acquisition is a ...

  7. Communicative language teaching - Wikipedia

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    It proposed that published materials stifle the communicative approach. As such, the aim of the Dogme approach to language teaching is to focus on real conversations about practical subjects in which communication is the engine of learning. The idea behind the Dogme approach is that communication can lead to explanation, which leads to further ...

  8. Second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive approaches to SLA research deal with the processes in the brain that underpin language acquisition, for example how paying attention to language affects the ability to learn it, or how language acquisition is related to short-term memory and long-term memory. Sociocultural approaches reject the notion that SLA is a purely ...

  9. Skill-based theories of second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Skill-based theories of second-language acquisition are theories of second-language acquisition based on models of skill acquisition in cognitive psychology.These theories conceive of second-language acquisition as being learned in the same way as any other skill, such as learning to drive a car or play the piano.