The Bounds of Adult Language Acquisition. Blocking and Learned Attention.

Autor/inn/en	Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria
Titel	The Bounds of Adult Language Acquisition. Blocking and Learned Attention.
Quelle	In: Studies in second language acquisition, 32 (2010) 4, S. 553-580Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen 8; Anmerkungen 2; Literaturangaben; Tabellen 3
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2631
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Experiment; Adverb; Native Speaker; Verb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Latein; Lateinunterricht; Erwachsener; TEMPUS (Europaweites Mobilitätsprogramm für den Hochschulbereich)
Abstract	The presented study investigates the limited attainment of adult language acquisition in terms of an associative learning phenomenon whereby earlier learned cues attentionally block those that are experienced later. Short- and long-term blocking are demonstrated in experimental investigations of learned attention in the acquisition of temporal reference in a small set of Latin phrases. In Experiment 1, previous experience with adverbial cues blocks the acquisition of verbal tense morphology, and, in contrast, early experience with tense blocks later learning of adverbs. Experiment 2 demonstrates long-term transfer effects: Native speakers of Chinese languages, which do not exhibit verb tense morphology, fail to acquire inflectional cues when adverbial and verbal cues are equally available. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/3