Adult Second Language Acquisition: A Cognitive Science Perspective  

Oleh:

Kroll, Judith F.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Human Behavior in Military Contexts (Committee on Opportunities in Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences for the U.S. Military), page 106-126.
Topik: Behavior Military; Adult Second Language; Acquisition; Cognitive Science; Bilingualism
Fulltext: behavior military (paper2).pdf (140.01KB)

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For cognitive scientists, the idea that speaking two languages might be the natural state of cognition has only recently come to be appreciated. Although more of the world’s population is bilingual than monolingual, research on language and thought has focused almost exclusively on monolingual speakers. In the past decade, perhaps due in part to the recognition of the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity within the United States, this situation has changed dramatically, and there has been a virtual explosion of research on how bilingual people and second language learners negotiate their lives in two languages. The new language science of bilingualism is characterized by the convergence across the disciplines that contribute to it, including psychology, linguistics, applied linguistics and second language acquisition, and neuroscience. In the past 10 years there has been a series of new scholarly journals, books, conferences, and funding initiatives dedicated to aspects of second language use and the contexts in which it holds broader implications for society (for comprehensive reviews, see Bhatia and Ritchie, 2004; Doughty and Long, 2003; Kroll and de Groot, 2005).

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