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  2. Positioning theory - Wikipedia

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    Positioning theory is a theory in social psychology that characterizes interactions between individuals. "Position" can be defined as an alterable collection of beliefs of an individual with regards to their rights, duties, and obligations. "Positioning" is the mechanism through which roles are assigned or denied, either to oneself or others.

  3. Bill VanPatten - Wikipedia

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    VanPatten was the creator of the educational television show Destinos, designed for use with Spanish courses.. He worked with the theory of input processing in second language acquisition, which aims to explain how L2 learners process input.

  4. Interface position - Wikipedia

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    The strong-interface position views language learning much the same as any other kind of learning. In this view, all kinds of learning follow the same sequence, from declarative knowledge (explicit knowledge about the thing to be learned), to procedural knowledge (knowledge of how the thing is done), and finally to automatization of this procedural knowledge.

  5. Psychoanalytic conceptions of language - Wikipedia

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    Secondly, psychoanalytic theory is linked in many ways to linguistic phenomena, such as parapraxes. According to Sigmund Freud the essential difference between modes of thought characterized by primary (irrational, governed by the id) as opposed to secondary (logical, governed by the ego and external reality) thought processes is one of ...

  6. Psycholinguistics - Wikipedia

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    Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. [1] The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; that is, the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.

  7. Applied linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication research, information science, natural language processing, anthropology, and sociology.

  8. Theories of second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    The main purpose of theories of second-language acquisition (SLA) is to shed light on how people who already know one language learn a second language.The field of second-language acquisition involves various contributions, such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and education.

  9. Cognitive linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. [1] Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are considered as psychologically real, and research in cognitive linguistics aims to help understand ...