In search of processes of language use in foreign language didactics. Maria Dakowska / Polish studies in English language and literature ; vol. 37

Neuwertiges Buch - fresh, clean copy. - Table of Contents -- Introduction -- In a nutshell -- The purpose and its limits -- Some important conceptual distinctions -- The questions -- Chapter 1. Addressing the mystery of language learning -- and teaching: a retrospective sketch -- Introduction: colonizing the unknown territory -- 1.1. The pre-linguistic stage: grammar as the key to foreign language -- learning and its alternatives -- 1.1.1. Preoccupation with grammar -- 1.1.2. Alternatives to the Grammar-Translation Method -- 1.1.3. Characteristic features of the pre-linguistic stage -- 1.1.4. Contributions of Sweet, Jespersen and Palmer. -- The impact of phonetics -- 1.2. The linguistic stage: the role of the source disciplines -- in the mid-twentieth century -- 1.2.1. Approach, method, technique -- 1.2.2. The role of Transformational Generative Grammar -- 1.2.3. Selecting a descriptive linguistic model of language -- 1.2.4. Complicating the relationship of the field with -- the source disciplines -- 1.3. The present: mapping the territory -- 1.4. Toward autonomy -- 1.5. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 2. Targeting the relevant aspect of language: -- focus on language use -- Introduction: on the many facets of language -- 2.1. How to reduce the complexity of the problem? -- 2.2. The format of'normal* academic disciplines -- as a source of orientation 66 -- 2.2.1. Scientific activities as specialization of human -- cognitive processes 68 -- 2.2.2. How can scientists communicate with the empirical reality? 71 -- 2.2.3. On the interface between Foreign Language Didactics -- as an empirical discipline and the empirical reality 72 -- 2.2.4. What informs a 'normal' academic discipline? 81 -- 2.3. On the meaning of the adjective 'interdisciplinary' 82 -- 2.4. Applications in a 'normal' academic discipline 84 -- 2.5. The field of Foreign Language Didactics -- as a 'normal' academic discipline 86 -- 2.5.1. Deriving models of language learning from language use 88 -- 2.5.2. The human locus of foreign language use and learning 90 -- 2.5.3. The learner as human information-processor 93 -- 2.6. Advantages of regarding language use and learning -- as human information processing 101 -- 2.7. The constructive contribution of the language -- learner to language use 105 -- 2.8. Concluding remarks 107 -- Chapter 3. Focus on the learner's cognitive equipment: -- the mechanism of human information processing (HIP) ill -- Introduction: the cognitive site of foreign language use Ill -- 3.1. Distinctive properties of human cognitive functioning 112 -- 3.2. Human information processing (HIP) 128 -- 3.2.1. Hierarchies (subordinate and superordinate levels) in human -- cognitive functioning 129 -- 3.2.2. The mechanism of human information processing -- including foreign language use 131 -- 3.2.3. Perception: the interface between the subject -- and the environment 132 -- 3.2.4. The role of perception in learning a foreign language 137 -- 3.2.5. Attention 140 -- 3.2.6. Attention versus working memory 145 -- 3.2.7. Working memory and intentional behaviour 146 -- 3.2.8. Memory 147 -- 3.2.9. Memory representations requisite in language use and learning 150 ISBN 9783631657904