Psycholinguistic Issues in the Assessment of the Sub-Components of Language Abilities.

Autor/in	MacWhinney, Brian
Titel	Psycholinguistic Issues in the Assessment of the Sub-Components of Language Abilities.
Quelle	(1994), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Contrastive Linguistics; Difficulty Level; English; Individual Differences; Language Aptitude; Language Research; Language Tests; Language Usage; Learning Strategies; Linguistic Theory; Measurement Techniques; Military Personnel; Morphology (Languages); Neurological Organization; Orthographic Symbols; Phonology; Predictor Variables; Psycholinguistics; Second Language Learning; Second Language Programs; Second Languages; Student Placement; Syntax; Testing; Vocabulary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Schwierigkeitsgrad; English language; Englisch; Individueller Unterschied; Sprachbegabung; Spracheignung; Sprachforschung; Language test; Sprachtest; Sprachgebrauch; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Linguistische Theorie; Messtechnik; Morphology; Morphologie; Fonologie; Prädiktor; Psycholinguistik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Schülerpraktikum; Testdurchführung; Testen; Wortschatz
Abstract	Drawing on recent psychological and neurological research on how individual differences might interact with learning a particular language, the study examines how psycholinguistic research and theory can help in assigning military personnel to language training and to a given language. Using the Defense Language Institute's Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) for reference, five categories of language difficulty are described, based on degree of difference from English. Research on individual differences in language learning is reviewed to identify potential methods of improving the DLAB to measure individual traits allowing a student to excel at certain languages or language skills. Language learning presents difficulties in orthography, phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax, syntactic processing, language use, and language learning strategies. For each there is rich psycholinguistic literature that can be used as a basis for additional measures of learner abilities. In practice, it may be useful to increase emphasis on prediction of second language learning from first language skills. It may also be easier to measure skill at learning and processing certain aspects of language. It is concluded that more finely tuned psycholinguistic measures of language learning skills are needed to predict problems caused by individual differences. (Contains 111 references.) (MSE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01