Adult and Second Language Learning

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-12-820377-4
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 72 in this preeminent series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving. Chapters in this new release cover Statistical learning predicts literacy acquisition of a foreign alphabetic and logographic language, An Investigation into Virtual Immersion Mandarin Chinese Writing Instruction with Students with Autism, Child and adult classroom L2 learners: uniqueness and similarities, and implications for cognitive models, Current Trends in Second Sign Language Research: Acquisition, Teaching and Assessment, Language Experiences and Cognitive Control: A Dynamic Perspective, and much more.

Zielgruppe

<p>Researchers and students in cognitive psychology</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Federmeier, Kara D.

Huang, Hsu-Wen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Lernen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Immersion into virtual reality for language learning

Yu-Ju Lan

- Language experiences and cognitive control: A dynamic perspective

Ping Li and Yanping Dong

- Studying bilingual learners and users of spoken and signed languages: A neurocognitive approach

Katherine J. Midgley, Yazmin E. Medina and Brittany Lee

- Event-related brain potentials in multilingual language processing: The N's and P's

Brennan R. Payne, Shukhan Ng, Kailen Shantz and Kara D. Federmeier

- Neural hemispheric organization in successful adult language learning: Is left always right?

Zhenghan Qi and Jennifer Legault

- Foreign language learning motivation: Phonetic chill or Latin lover effect? Does sound structure or social stereotyping drive FLL?

Susanne M. Reiterer, Vita Kogan, Annemarie Seither-Preisler and Gasper Pesek

- Lexical processing in child and adult classroom second language learners: Uniqueness and similarities, and implications for cognitive models

Janet G. van Hell

- The dynamics of language experience and how it affects language and cognition

Zofia Wodniecka, Alba Casado, Patrycja Kalamala, Marta Marecka, Kalinka Timmer and Agata Wolna

- The contribution of statistical learning to language and literacy acquisition

Denise H. Wu and Talat Bulut

Über Autor(innen)

Huang, Hsu-Wen
Hsu-Wen Huang is at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Federmeier, Kara D.
Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.