New Advances in Psycholinguistics and Their Practical Implications on Foreign Language Education

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Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice ›› 2012, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (3) : 36.

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New Advances in Psycholinguistics and Their Practical Implications on Foreign Language Education

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Psycholinguistics investigate the psychological and neurophysiological factors in language production, processing and comprehension. This article reviews the new research progress in the last two decades, and foresees the future development trend of this interdisciplinary subject. After clearly and fully examining the empirical evidence of psycholinguistic studies on levels of characters, words, sentences, discourse and phonology, the article prescribes advice on language learning principles in accordance with these specific language elements. The article outlines the foreign language teaching and learning strategies as follows: bridging over the phonological channels and stressing on the orthography; reflecting the semantic features and developing the sense of context-usage; emphasizing the role of scenario and succeeding in expressing ideas on the discourse level.

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Psycholinguistics / development and trends / character / word / sentence / discourse / phonology / language learning and teaching strategies / development module

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