Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/7771
Title: Stages of acquisition and the P/E model of working memory: Complementary or contrasting approaches to foreign language aptitude?
Authors: Prof. WEN Zhisheng, Edward 
Skehan, Peter 
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press
Source: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021, vol. 41, pp. 6-24.
Journal: Annual review of applied linguistics 
Abstract: This paper explores the roles of both working memory (WM) and more traditional aptitude components, such as input processing and language analytic ability in the context of foreign language learning aptitude. More specifically, the paper compares two current perspectives on language aptitude: the Stages Approach (Skehan, 2016, 2019) and the P/E Model (Wen, 2016, 2019). Input processing and noticing, pattern identification and complexification, and feedback are examined as they relate to both perspectives and are then used to discuss existing aptitude testing, recent research, and broader theoretical issues. It is argued that WM and language aptitude play different but complementary roles at each of these stages, reflecting the various linguistic and psycholinguistic processes that are most prominent in other aspects of language learning. Overall, though both perspectives posit that WM and language aptitude have equal importance at the input processing stage, they exert greater influence at each of the remaining stages. More traditional views of aptitude dominate at the pattern identification and complexification stage and WM with the feedback stage.
Description: Open access
Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/7771
ISSN: 0267-1905
1471-6356
DOI: 10.1017/S0267190521000015
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