Psycholinguistics Psychology Linguistics Cognitive science Speech & language pathology

Language acquisition Second language acquisition Language comprehension Language production

Q1:Explain communicative functions for each hemisphere of the brain

Q2: Is the Hemispheric specialization for Q2: Is the Hemispheric specialization for spoken language the same as the one for sign language?

Q3: How independent are your L1 and L2 Q3: How independent are your L1 and L2? (use these terms- coordinate, compound, or subordinate bilinguals)

Q4: Does the organization for the brain for L2 in relation to L1 differ with … 1. age of acquisition 2. how it is learned 3. level of proficiency?

Learning processes: Information Processing Learning demands learners’ attention, and thus involves controlled processing Learners go from controlled to automatic processing with practice.

Learning involves restructuring or reorganization of mental representations. Restructuring of internal L2 representations with larger stores in memory accounts for increasing levels of L2 proficiency.

Q5: Explain L2 fossilization in terms of IP.

Q6: When can the ‘input’ become ‘intake’?

Q7: Explain declarative and procedural knowledge

Q8: Provide examples of the acquisitional hierarchy of processing skills (Pienemann & Hakansson 1999)

Q9: Explain Competition model ex) Little waters a lily

Q10: From a connectionist viewpoint, learning is change in the strength of the connections between stimuli and responses. What does this mean?

Parallel Distributed Processing Processing is parallel: many connections are activated at the same time Knowledge is not stored (and/or retrieved) in memory but as ‘connection strengths’ between the nodes.

Q11: Explain the differences in learners Age (critical period hypothesis) Sex Aptitude Motivation Cognitive style Personality Learning strategies