Consciousness and Second Language Learning

Download or read book Consciousness and Second Language Learning written by John Truscott (College teacher) and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2015 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the place of consciousness in second language learning. It offers extensive background information on theories of consciousness and provides a detailed consideration of both the nature of consciousness and the cognitive context in which it appears. It presents the established Modular Online Growth and Use of Language (MOGUL) framework and explains the place of consciousness within this framework to enable a cognitively conceptualised understanding of consciousness in second language learning. It then applies this framework to fundamental concerns of second language acquisition, those of perception and memory, looking at how second language representations come to exist in the mind and what happens to these representations once they have been established (memory consolidation and restructuring).