Multilingual Mind - A Modular Processing Perspective

"This book is the first detailed description of a particular theoretical framework for studying language development and language performance. The framework is called MOGUL (Modular On-line Growth and Use of Language). It has been the topic of numerous publications and presentations since the appearance of our 2004 keynote article in Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. MOGUL is not just about how a language grows in the individual child: it is about how the mind expands to accommodate more than one language both in childhood and later in life and how these various linguistic systems share space and interact"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. The Framework: 2. The language module: architecture and representations; 3. Processing in the language module; 4. Growth of the language module: acquisition by processing; 5. Beyond the language module; Part II. Applying the Framework: 6. The bilingual mind introduced; 7. The growth of a second language; 8. Consciousness and attention; 9. The role of consciousness in language growth; 10. Issues in SLA revisited; 11. Conclusion; References.

About the author

Michael Sharwood Smith is Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is also the founding editor of the journal Second Language Research.John Truscott is a Professor at the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and has extensive experience teaching English as a foreign language, along with classes in linguistics, psychology and language teaching.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Sharwood Smith & John Truscott, Michael Sharwood Smith, Michael Sharwood-Smith, Michael Truscott Sharwood-Smith, Mike Sharwood-Smith, John Truscott, Truscott John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2014
• EAN: 9781107040854
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04085-4
• No. of pages: 430
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics