Acculturation Model Acculturation model is one of the aspects of ‘language-culture connection. Schumann’s Acculturation Model was established to account for …
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Impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published …
Structure Dependency Structure dependency is one of the properties of human language. Furthermore, it is one of the principles of …
Transformational Generative Grammar Transformational Generative Grammar In the late 1960s, Noam Chomsky replaced behaviorism with cognitive psychology. Based on thinking, …
Good Language Learner Good Language Learner Early research on language learning strategies took the form of ‘good language learner studies’. …
Foreigner Talk Foreigner Talk The three functions of foreigner talk can be identified: It promotes communication through simplifying utterances and …
L2 = L1 Hypothesis L2 = L1 Hypothesis (also known as the ‘identity hypothesis’) has received considerable attention in SLA …
Traditional Instructional Theory Traditional instructional theory assumes that knowledge and skill can be analysed into component parts that function in …
Criterion-referenced Testing Criterion-referenced Testing Also known as ‘domain-referenced tests’ They are devised before the instruction itself is designed. The test …
Interlanguage Interlanguage Selinker (1969, 1972) coined this term to refer to the special mental grammars that learners construct during the …