The role of recognition memory in L2 development
The study of memory in general is of extreme importance for understanding the human mind.
The role of memory in language learning has long been of interest to researchers in the first and second languages of acquisition.
In SLA, researchers have focused on short-term rather than long-term differences because they think memory is more responsible in language development.
This is because short-term memory has the ability to process and analyze new information such as words, grammatical structures, etc.
Craik y Lockhart say it is the levels of processing or coding that determines the amount of data recognized or remembered.
When learning a second language, students say they have bad memory, this because they have bad habits.
Memory strategies are based on basic principles such as putting things in order, making associations, and reviewing.
Words and phrases can be associated with images, movements, sounds that allow information and communication to be stored and retrieved.
The cognitive approach has changed our conception of the teaching-learning process in several ways.
Instead of seeing students passively recording the stimuli presented by the teacher, learning is seen as a process that occurs within the student and can be influenced by the student.
One researcher examined the factors influencing the process of learning to read in a second language, as well as working memory and short-term memory capabilities.
The elaborate reading comprehension skills of 68 Russian speakers children (mean age 7 years and 6 months) were assessed at the beginning of Grade 2. From this sample, 40 participants were selected: 20 successful students and 20 unsuccessful students.
The findings suggest that, in addition to a distribution in L2, readers are characterized more by a meta-linguistics rather than a linguistic deficit in their native language, and working memory is essential to perform L2 development.
REFERENCES
- AL-Hammadi, F. S. (15 June 2012). The role of recognition memory in L2 development. Department of English, College of Arts, King Faisal University,, 83-93.
Attention
Paying attention in language learning is a strategy that has two modes, direct attention and selective attention.
Paying attention is a metacognitive strategy that shares common characteristics with others such as planning a language task and a language learning task objective.
Others firmly believe that language learning is essentially unconscious. Seliger has stated that it is obviously at the unconscious level where language learning takes place
Yeny Paola Correa Castro. 1002523374. Language Adquisition.