Автор: olga de gilde
Дата: 09-04-05 00:43
Я нашла следующее в google. Кроме того, есть еще и такая ссылка: http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/labs/ullman/ Может, Вам это поможет, если еще не поздно.
"....While applied linguistics research handbooks state (I should say appeal) that there is a research question for applied linguistics, there is no standard research methodology which is a failing of the field (as well as incredibly frustrating for grad students), and so it usually borrows research methods from education or cognitive psychology.
One of the better researchers is Michael Ullman (Georgetown Univ) who has recently turned his attention to second language learning (he was a student of Steven Pinker's). His research model is somewhat based on Michel Paradis's work (McGill Univ) from which he has posited his procedural/declarative model.
Basically this model proposes that declarative memory (i.e., words and idioms) uses the parietal and temporal cortical regions while procedural memory (i.e., grammar rules) uses the frontal cortex and the parietal cortex along with the basal ganglia.
And so, perhaps beyond childhood procedural memory is not employed as it is in childhood when learning one's mother tongue.
Further, subserving declarative and procedural memory is short-term memory, and so if aspects of your short-term memory (eg. phonological loop) are sketchy then this will limit your ability to learn a language.
I suppose including the age of Lord Skidelsky suggests that because of his older age, his memory is not quite what it used to be and so that is why he is having troubles learning Russian, but that may be more of a concern regarding neurochemistry than the neurobiological projections for language."
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