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  2. Theories of second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Some of the major cognitive theories of how learners organize language knowledge are based on analyses of how speakers of various languages analyze sentences for meaning. MacWhinney, Bates, and Kliegl found that speakers of English, German, and Italian showed varying patterns in identifying the subjects of transitive sentences containing more ...

  3. Motivating language theory - Wikipedia

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    There are three types of languages used in leader communication: direction-giving, emotion-sharing, and meaning-making. Sullivan suggests that the most effective leaders combine all three language types in their communication. ML and its effectiveness have been studied in business, [2] education, [3] government, [4] religion [5] and other ...

  4. Motivation in second-language learning - Wikipedia

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    The desire to learn is often related to the concept of motivation. Motivation is the most-used concept for explaining the failure or success of a language learner. [1] Second language (L2) refers to a language an individual learns that is not his/her mother tongue, but is of use in the area of the individual.

  5. Second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    In the early days of second-language acquisition research on interlanguage was seen as the basic representation of second-language knowledge; however, more recent research has taken several different approaches in characterizing the mental representation of language knowledge. [33] Some theories hypothesize that learner language is inherently ...

  6. File:Educational Psychology motivation in learning.pdf

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  7. Language-learning aptitude - Wikipedia

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    John B. Carroll, an influential psychologist in the field of educational linguistics, developed a theory about a cluster of four abilities that factored into language learning aptitude, separate from verbal intelligence and motivation. Using these four distinct abilities (phonetic coding ability, grammatical sensitivity, rote learning ability ...

  8. Category:Motivational theories - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are Motivational theories or lists of Motivational theories, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Motivational theories in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .

  9. Theory of language - Wikipedia

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    Theory of language is a topic in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. [1] It has the goal of answering the questions "What is language?"; [2] [3] "Why do languages have the properties they do?"; [4] or "What is the origin of language?". In addition to these fundamental questions, the theory of language also seeks to understand ...