Bøker av John Truscott

The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and their relation to one another.The aim of the book is to explore this relation between working memory and modularity, first in general terms and then using a specific modular view of the mind ¿ the Modular Cognition Framework.

The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and their relation to one another.The aim of the book is to explore this relation between working memory and modularity, first in general terms and then using a specific modular view of the mind ¿ the Modular Cognition Framework.

The book offers a novel view of consciousness and its place in second language learning, using the established cognitive framework, MOGUL. It also provides an extensive review of theories of consciousness and related cognitive theory and research, placing that work in the context of second language learning.

Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds. The mental architecture proposed in this volume permits research across many domains in cognitive science to be integrated and explored within one explanatory framework, recasting compatible insights and findings in terms of a common set of terms and concepts. The MOGUL framework has already proven effective for shedding light on the relationship between processing and learning, metalinguistic knowledge, consciousness, optionality, crosslinguistic influence, the initial state, 'UG access', ultimate attainment, input enhancement, and even language instruction. This groundbreaking work will be essential reading for linguists working in language acquisition, multilingualism, language processing and for those working in related areas of psychology, neurology and cognitive science.