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Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts: The Key Concepts
Psycholinguistics is an authoritative, wide-ranging and up-to-date A to Z guide to this important field. Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading and a full index, this book is a highly accessible introduction to the main terms and concepts in psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics offers over 170 entries covering the key areas:
psychological processes first language acquisition the nature of language brain and language language disorders.
This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for all students of English language, linguistics and psychology.
psychological processes first language acquisition the nature of language brain and language language disorders.
This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for all students of English language, linguistics and psychology.
388 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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John Field
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About the Author:
John Field has a PhD from Cambridge University on the identification of words in connected speech by first and second language listeners. He has an MA in Linguistics and ELT from the University of Leeds and an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics from Cambridge University. His undergraduate degree (English Language and Linguistics). was at University College London. He is a trained English language teacher, and holds the Cambridge/ RSA Diploma.
John specialises in Psycholinguistics, with particular reference to the ways in which cognitive psychology can enable a better understanding of second language skills. His main research interest lies in second language listening. He has worked extensively on cognitive validation in language testing, comparing the processes adopted by a candidate under test conditions with those that would be employed in a less constrained real-world context.
This is John^^Field, where ^=space.
About the Author:
John Field has a PhD from Cambridge University on the identification of words in connected speech by first and second language listeners. He has an MA in Linguistics and ELT from the University of Leeds and an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics from Cambridge University. His undergraduate degree (English Language and Linguistics). was at University College London. He is a trained English language teacher, and holds the Cambridge/ RSA Diploma.
John specialises in Psycholinguistics, with particular reference to the ways in which cognitive psychology can enable a better understanding of second language skills. His main research interest lies in second language listening. He has worked extensively on cognitive validation in language testing, comparing the processes adopted by a candidate under test conditions with those that would be employed in a less constrained real-world context.
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September 9, 2021
The concepts are written in a simple and accessible way and, wherever possible, they are accompanied with brief, illustrative examples. This is a very user- and student-friendly book!
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