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Teachability Hypothesis
The Teachability Hypothesis was produced by Manfred Pienemann. It was originally extracted from Pienemann's ''Processability theory, Processibility'' model. It proposes that learners will acquire a Second-language acquisition, second language (L2) features if what is being taught is relatively close to their stage in language development. Description The Teachability Hypothesis is based on previous psycholinguistic research in second language acquisition done by Meisel, Clahsen, and Pienemann (1981) and is reflective in Pienemann's Processability theory, Processibility theory. The hypothesis reports that some aspects of language are sequenced in a way that follows the developmental levels of language in which Pienemann coined those these features as 'developmental'. This sequence is reflective of the natural stages that learners will go through when learning a second language. Pienemann (1984) emphasizes that teachability of L2 structures have psychological constraints are univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Processability Theory
Processability theory is a Scientific theory, theory of second language acquisition developed by Manfred Pienemann. (Pienemann 1998) The theory has been used as a framework by scientists from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Processability theory (PT) is a cognitive approach to second language acquisition that seeks to explain developmental schedules as well as learner variation. It is based on Levelt’s (1989) approach to language generation and is formally operationalized using Lexical-Functional Grammar (Bresnan 2001). PT’s core assumption is that learners can produce only what they can process. PT is therefore based on the architecture of human language generation that is constructed hierarchically. It is argued that learners are constrained to follow that hierarchical order of processability in acquiring any target language. In other words, the hierarchy of processability is the core of the predictive machinery entailed in PT. Of course, the hierarchy must be app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |