Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Looking critically at the Field: What sort of evidence do psychology and linguistics provide about SLL?; 2. Taking in and sorting out the information: Extracting features from the spoken message; 3. Decoding print: Processes of word recognition in a second language; 4. Using background knowledge to interpret the message; 5. Making sense: The structure of semantic memory and the mental lexicon
Summary
This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining 'bottom-up' decoding processes as compared with 'top-down' processes as they affect memory. It also discusses second language learning from the acquisition/learning and nativist/connectionist perspectives. These ideas are then related to the methods that are used to teach second languages, primarily English, in formal classroom
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index
