Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language

Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 1973
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810105977

The tools, concepts, and vocabulary of phenomenology are used in this book to explore language in a multitude of contexts.

Consciousness and Second Language Learning

Consciousness and Second Language Learning
Author: John Truscott (College teacher)
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783092661

This book explores the place of consciousness in second language learning. It offers extensive background information on theories of consciousness and provides a detailed consideration of both the nature of consciousness and the cognitive context in which it appears. It presents the established Modular Online Growth and Use of Language (MOGUL) framework and explains the place of consciousness within this framework to enable a cognitively conceptualised understanding of consciousness in second language learning. It then applies this framework to fundamental concerns of second language acquisition, those of perception and memory, looking at how second language representations come to exist in the mind and what happens to these representations once they have been established (memory consolidation and restructuring).

Awareness in Action

Awareness in Action
Author: Andrzej Łyda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-09-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319004611

The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. The book focuses on questions such as how much linguistic knowledge is open to the learner’s conscious experience, what should and should not be considered the knowledge of language, how language awareness can be enhanced in the classroom, and, most crucially, what effects language awareness has on attained proficiency. Some papers in the volume also address methodological challenges of researching language awareness, such as the difficulty of defining and measuring awareness with sufficient precision.

Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness

Language Structure, Discourse, and the Access to Consciousness
Author: Maksim Stamenov
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9027251320

The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of the interpretation of conscious and unconscious mind in the theoretical discourse of modern linguistics; the determination of the structure of consciousness by the grammatical structure; the levels of access of grammatical and lexical information to consciousness; the development of cognitive complexity and control in ontogeny; pathologies of consciousness access in discourse comprehension and production; the cognitive contextual prerequisites for the representation of meaning in consciousness; the relationships between language structure and qualia in the phenomenology of experience; the dialogical structure of intentionality and meaning representation, etc. (Series B)

Language, Thought and Consciousness

Language, Thought and Consciousness
Author: Peter Carruthers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1998-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521639996

Peter Carruthers argues that much of human conscious thinking is conducted in the medium of natural language sentences.

Discourse, Consciousness, and Time

Discourse, Consciousness, and Time
Author: Wallace Chafe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 1994-10-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226100545

Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on analyses of conversational speech, written fiction and nonfiction, the North American Indian language Seneca, and the music of Mozart and of the Seneca people, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many topics of linguistic importance, such as anaphora, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages such as the historical present and free indirect style. This book offers a comprehensive picture of the dynamic natures of language and consciousness for linguists, psychologists, literary scholars, computer scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers.

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition
Author: Karen Roehr-Brackin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317338804

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA. In this volume, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in the context of both child and adult language learning, and outlines the various methods that can be used to measure metalinguistic awareness. The author presents different approaches to metalinguistic awareness, including a cognitive-developmental perspective that explains how the concept relates to literacy, and an applied linguistics perspective that understands metalinguistic awareness as explicit or conscious knowledge about language. Roehr-Brackin explores the role of metalinguistic awareness in language education aimed at young learners, as well as in instructed adult SLA. This book is an excellent resource for those researching or taking courses in second language acquisition, bi- and multilingualism, and language teaching.

Understanding Second Language Process

Understanding Second Language Process
Author: Zhaohong Han
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This book assembles 11 analytical and empirical studies on the process of second language acquisition, probing a wide array of issues, from transfer appropriate processing to L2 default processing strategies, among hearing or deaf learners of a variety of target languages including English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Spanish, and American Sign Language. Although instruction per se is not the focus of this volume, the chapters are written with instructed learners in mind, and hence offer valuable insights for both second and foreign language researchers and practitioners.

Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2008-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135604185

This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). The first two sections identify theoretical and empirical strands of Cognitive Linguistics, presenting them as a coherent whole. The third section discusses the relevance of Cognitive Linguistics to SLA and defines a research agenda linking these fields with implications for language instruction. Its comprehensive range and tutorial-style chapters make this handbook a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.