scholarly journals Research Dialogue 2: Atypical language development in children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Guasti ◽  
Duncan Astle
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Difficulties ◽  
University Of Cambridge

Research dialogue between Maria Teresa Guasti, Università di Milano-Bicocca and Duncan Astle, University of Cambridge on the topic of atypical language development in children. Maria Teresa Guasti presents her research on 'Dyslexia as a Window into Language', followed by Duncan Astle's presentation 'Beyond the label: A transdiagnostic approach to understanding cognitive difficulties in childhood'. The session is chaired by Prof. Henriëtte Hendriks, Theoretical & Applied Linguistics section, University of Cambridge.

scholarly journals PROSES PEMEROLEHAN BAHASA: DARI KEMAMPUAN HINGGA KEKURANGMAMPUAN BERBAHASA

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohmani Nur Indah
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Second Language Development ◽  
The Relationship

Studies on language acquisition become the pillar of Psycholinguistics as a branch of Applied Linguistics that deals with the relationship between human’s thought and language as well as how human beings comprehend, acquire and develop their language. Language acquisition does not merely involve children’s first or second language development, but also temporer language disorder –which does not belong to permanent language disorder. Deviation on language development to some extent gets little attention from psycholinguists. Most references on psychology of language discuss language disorder in general, whereas the current issues on this area are still rarely found. The following article deciphers what and how language acquisition can be done and cannot be completed.

scholarly journals The learner, the media and the community: How does learning take place in the other CALL triangle?

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Sockett
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Media

In this research project, students in applied linguistics were asked to keep blogs over a three-month period in which they reported on their online informal learning of English through activities such as social networking, downloading films and TV series and listening to music on demand. The study is situated within the framework of complexity theory, many aspects of which are well suited to describing informal language development. The blogs are analysed according to a number of learning processes suggested by Larsen-Freeman and Cameron (2008) and a corresponding range of learning activities are observed. Finally, suggestions are made as to possible classroom applications of this work.

The study of language and subject English

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Frances Christie
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Integrated Models ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
University Level ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
English Program

Abstract Applied linguistics has not sufficiently addressed theories of teaching subject English in the mainstream classroom. This is unfortunate because applied linguistic theories can offer a great deal to the development of a theory of subject English. Over the last century, subject English has changed quite fundamentally, and it is increasingly in need of a theory of language to shape its future. At the end of the 19th century, English was a set of discrete English skills. Later, as literature achieved greater status at the university level, its teaching was also brought into school English, though the discrete skills and literary pursuits were at best brought into an uneasy amalgam. By the 1960s, in an effort to overcome the uneasy amalgam, “integrated” models of English teaching were proposed, and it was argued that the goal of the English program should be to promote “growth” through language. Terms like “language development” were adopted in English, though this was ironically at a time that teaching of knowledge about language became discredited. By the 21st century English had become increasingly synonymous with “literacy”, though a robust theory of knowledge about language was badly needed. Subject English needs new directions, of a kind that functional theories of language can provide.

Slovotvorná Motivácia V Jazykovom Vývine Dieťaťa

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-615
Author(s):  
Ľudmila Liptáková
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Instructional Text ◽  
Research Findings

Abstract The aim of the paper is to analyse the role of word­formation motivation in child’s language development. The character of the research problem requires a transdisciplinary approach. For this reason, the author looks back on derivational theories as well as on researches of applied linguistics in Slovakia and abroad. Analysis of the relation between word­formation motivation and language development is based on author’s empirical findings on the children’s nonce words, the role of word­formation motivation in the development of the child’s cognitive and linguistic abilities and in the comprehension of an instructional text. The paper consists of: 1) the analysis of theoretical background from the point of view of derivatology as well as of applied linguistics; 2) the analysis of relevant research findings and the clarification of relationship between particular aspects of this topic; 3) the discussion about the functions of word­formation motivation in child’s language development confronting the author’s findings with the findings of other researches in this field.

scholarly journals [Unplanned] Language Policy and Planning

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 82-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Baldauf
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Language Needs ◽  
Policy And Planning

Naturally enough, the field of language planning, as its name suggests, has concentrated its efforts on the description and practice of planned language development. This is after all its raison d'être, to provide future oriented, problem-solving language-change strategies to meet particular language needs. This orientation means that language planning is one of the key descriptive topics in applied linguistics, bringing together as it does theory from a variety of disciplines and putting that into practice. Grabe and Kaplan (1992) estimate that the applied linguistics aspects of language policy and planning make up one of four categories that accounts for about 45 percent of the items published in this field.

Transdisciplinary research methods and complexity theory in applied linguistics: introduction to the special issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Hiver ◽  
Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Dynamic Systems Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Oxford University

Abstract Complexity theory/dynamic systems theory (CDST) has captured the imagination of many in the field of applied linguistics (Larsen-Freeman, Diane & Lynne Cameron. 2008. Complex systems and applied linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Ortega, Lourdes & Zhao Hong Han (eds.). 2017. Complexity theory and language development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman. Amsterdam: John Benjamins). As recent syntheses of the growing number of CDST-informed strands of applied linguistics research illustrates, it has emerged as an important influence on applied linguists’ thinking (see Larsen-Freeman, Diane. 2017. Complexity theory: The lessons continue. In Lourdes Ortega & Zhao Hong Han (eds.), Complexity theory and language development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman, 11–50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins). The fact that CDST has continued to permeate questions throughout the field is to be expected and welcomed.

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