Evaluating Communicative Teaching Method With Consideration of Psycholinguistics

Communicative language teaching has been in vogue in the past ten years. Being a language teaching method, it is closely related to linguistics, sociology, educeational theories and so on, psycholinguistics, a branch of linguistics focusing on the mental processes involved in human being's language acquisition and production, play a most important role in the study of language teaching, including communicative language teaching (CLT) of course. In this paper the writer will evaluate the CLT with the consideration of psycholinguistics to what extent CLT is helpful for second language teaching and learning.……

Psycholinguistics:An Introduction to the Psychology of Language

《心理语言学——语言心理学简介》是该领域里一部重要的学术著作。此书材料丰富,用词浅显,行文流畅,与同类著作相比,具有较高的参考价值。

TEACHING INTENSIVE READING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MODERN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Many students have difficulties in obtaining the globalmeanings of texts.This paper proposes some suggestions on howto help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensivereading classrooms within the framework of modernpsycholinguistics.It mainly discusses the important effect ofprior knowledge on further understanding and provides threemethods to help solve this problem:make good use of pre-reading activities;enrich the students’background information;and analyze the structure of texts.

On Second Language Learners＇ Lexical Competence

The paper discusses SL learners＇ lexical competence from O＇Connor＇s Five Steps of Vocabulary Acquisition Theory, Collins ＆ Loftus＇s Semantic Network Theory and Fay ＆ Cutler＇s Mental Lexicon Theory. From the discussion, the author finds that second language learners＇ lexical competence includes the following aspects： the ability to recall the words which are similar to the target words in spelling and pronunciation; the ability to recall the synonyms of the target words; the ability to recall the antonyms of the target words; and the ability to recall the related words which come together with the target words in a context. Meanwhile it advances some strategies to develop the corresponding competence.

On College English lexical teaching

Vocabulary is a fundamental element of a language. It undertakes the task of conveying semantic meanings. And it guarantees the implement of language communication. Thus, accumulation of a certain amount of vocabulary and the master of proper use of them is the essential condition of skillful employment of a language. The current lexical teaching in College English is far from satisfaction. Based on the findings of psycholinguistic research, this paper intends to explore an effective way to help the students enlarge their vocabulary and use them correctly with the help of various psychological associations with English vocabulary through analysis of some lexical mistakes committed in students＇ daily writing exercises.

论心理语言学对英语教师教学实践的影响(英文)

Psycholinguistics is a newly developed discipline at present.It is helpful for experts to study how knowledge of language is represented in the mind/brain of a fluent speaker/hearer,how this information is utilized in the comprehension and production of expressions,and how speakers/hearers acquire these abilities.Since psycholinguistics is playing a vital role in research on language,it also has a great influence on foreign language teaching.English teachers could use theory of psycholinguistics to guide their teaching.This thesis aims to discuss functions of psycholinguistics on English teaching through four types of English curriculums(listening,speaking,reading and writing).

Brief Analysis of Chinese Students’ Errors in English Reading

On the basis of the theories of psycholinguistic perspective in language teaching and communicative approach in language learning,the author of this paper analysed briefly some tangible errors for the Chinese students in their reading comprehension in line with his own teaching experiences. The aim of the paper is to overcome the obstacles existing between the author’ s text writers and the text readers and to enable the latter to become effective readers.

Differential Puankre’s Model of Sentence Lengths Clock Rhythms in Religious Texts

The mechanism of language’s impact on people’s mind is a black box problem in psycholinguistics.In the 21st century it crossed the field of psychology and became an urgent problem in artificial intelligence and neuroscience.Religious language has a highly effective role amongst all human linguistic materials on psychological behavior.What is the mechanism of religious language impacts on the brain?This study examined the relationship between religious linguistic rhythms and brain wave rhythms.We chose 36 Koran’s sur as language material and counted the length of every sentence for definition its’rhythm.And using the same method we compared with other religious and political linguistic material.The data shows the common rhythmic structure among all those language materials.Therefore,we consider that clock rhythms display of bilateral regulation,psychotherapeutic impact of the canonic texts is based on harmonization inter-hemisphere attitudes and other rhythms.

Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Influence of Affective Factors on College English Learning

There are many factors that affect college students’English learning.In order to help college students learn English effectively,we need to analyze the corresponding factors.This paper mainly analyzes the emotional factors of college students’English learning from the perspective of psycholinguistics,and actively explores the corresponding solutions,so as to promote the improvement of college students’English learning ability of China.

Formulaic Language in Second Language Acquisition:A Review

This paper argues for the need of the reappraisal of the formulaic aspect of language in second language acquisition by drawing insights from recent development in applied linguistics, psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics. This library study begins by reviewing the dual-nature view of language in relation to formulaic aspect of language. Then, a brief survey of evidence from corpus linguistics is provided to demonstrate the formulaicity of language. What follows is the discussion of rehearsal and implicit learning vis-a-vis memory from the perspective of psycholinguistics. After that, the role of formulaic language in second language acquisition is examined by taking stock of empirical findings that have accumulated in this area. Finally, by way of conclusion, how the formulaicity of language can shed light on second/foreign language teaching theory is illustrated.

Usage-based Theory

Usage-based theory is a constructive cognitive development method, which is closely related to constructivists who believe that children build grammar knowledge from their experience.

谈话语的流畅——对于话语标识“you know”的心理语言学分析(英文)

Some learners and instructors of English language are inclined to consider the phrases like"you know""well"to be meaningless pause-fillers, which only exist to make the utterance fluent, thus they don't like to use them too often in speech. This article gives a psycholinguistic study of the discourse marker"you know", not only does it relate the use to the speaker's complex cognitive process in the production of speech, but also it illustrates how"you know"functions in the interaction between the speaker and the hearer. Finally, we come to conclude that it is useful and meaningful in our speech.

A Brief Analysis of Hong Kong Students in International School

In Hong Kong, English is widely used as an international language. More and more parents tend to choose international schools for their children. Why the number is going on so rapidly? This essay will explain this phenomenon in psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects and to some extent, these theories can give implications to Hong Kong teachers.

The Application of Psycholinguistic Principles in University English Teaching

With the new curriculum reform put into effect, new requirements and plans for college English teaching have been put forward. More and more attention has been paid to Chinese college English teaching from all aspects, among which, psycholinguistics is a new frontier subject. The application of psycholinguistic principles in education is more extensive. The research on the osmotic application of psycholinguistic principles in Chinese college English teaching is becoming the focus of education. This paper briefly introduces the characteristics and basic situation of English teaching in Chinese colleges, and the application of psycholinguistic principles in Chinese college English teaching is expounded. The purpose of this study is to understand the principles of psycholinguistics in English teaching in Chinese universities. It is hoped to play a positive role in promoting college English teaching innovation in China.

THE STRATEGICAL ROLE OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM IN THE CHINESE TEFL CLASSROOM

This thesis,based on a strategical undertanding,explores the functional modes of the visual sys-tem in the growth and development of English psychology in Chinese learners.The hypthesis is that the visualsystem can be trategicdally employed for the cultivation of the cultivation of the target language psychology and for the effect ofmemeory.After a detailed delineation of the classroom visual experience,the ensured V1 mode is adopted inthe experiment testifying the hypothsis.A statistic analyis of the result shows that the visual experience,strate-gically constructed and made meaningful in the psychological growth and development,can be a solution to someof the existing problems in the Chinese TEFL classroom.

Text Difficulty Study:Do Machines Behave the Same as Humans Regarding Text Difficulty?

With the emergence of pre-trained models,current neural networks are able to give task performance that is comparable to humans.However,we know little about the fundamental working mechanism of pre-trained models in which we do not know how they approach such performance and how the task is solved by the model.For example,given a task,human learns from easy to hard,whereas the model learns randomly.Undeniably,difficulty-insensitive learning leads to great success in natural language processing(NLP),but little attention has been paid to the effect of text difficulty in NLP.We propose a human learning matching index(HLM Index)to investigate the effect of text difficulty.Experiment results show:1)LSTM gives more human-like learning behavior than BERT.Additionally,UID-SuperLinear gives the best evaluation of text difficulty among four text difficulty criteria.Among nine tasks,some tasks’performance is related to text difficulty,whereas others are not.2)Model trained on easy data performs best in both easy and medium test data,whereas trained on hard data only performs well on hard test data.3)Train the model from easy to hard,leading to quicker convergence.

THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC SCHEMA THEORY AND ESL READING METHODOLOGY

Schema theory research has shown importance of background knowledge within a psycholinguistic model of reading. This paper gives an overview of schema theory as part of a reader-centered, psycholinguistic processing model of EFL/ESL reading, in which we discuss how reading comprehension involves background knowledge that goes far beyond linguistic knowledge. The process of interpretation is realized by the employment of two basic modes of information processing, bottom-up and top-down processing. Then, a variety of techniques and classroom activities are suggested for accommodating this phenomenon in a reader-centered EFL/ESL reading program.

A Lecture Delivered at Beijing Foreign Studies University, May 12, 2019

This article traces the evolution of the field of second language acquisition/development(SLA/SLD). It chronicles the evolution in terms of different disciplines and theories that have been influential, beginning with the origin of SLA/SLD in linguistic thinking and expanding its scope of inquiry to psycholinguistics. It has developed further with the disciplines of anthropology and sociology holding sway. More recently, newer cognitive theories have been influential. The article discusses the recent call for a transdisciplinary approach. More specifically, the author promotes the adoption of complex dynamic systems theory, in keeping with non-reductionist systems thinking. Not only is this sociocognitive theory an interdisciplinary theory, but it also highlights the dynamic, variable, nonlinear nature of second language development. This it does within an ecological conception of development, which insists on the relevance of context. It also maintains that SLA/SLD is not a matter of input becoming output, but rather that language patterns emerge from the interaction of its users, given the affordances that they perceive. The article concludes with a discussion of several instructional issues.