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Title: | Theorizing and measuring working memory in first and second language research |
Authors: | Prof. WEN Zhisheng, Edward |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Source: | Language Teaching, 2014, vol.47(2), pp.174-190. |
Journal: | Language Teaching |
Abstract: | Working memory (WM) generally refers to the human ability to temporarily maintain and manipulate a limited amount of information in immediate consciousness when carrying out complex cognitive tasks such as problem-solving and language comprehension. Though much controversy has surrounded the WM concept since its inception by Baddeley & Hitch (1974), an increasing number of cognitive psychologists have accepted WM as a multi-component system comprising both domain-specific storage mechanisms and domain-general executive functions (Miyake & Shah 1999; Baddeley 2012; Williams 2012). Such a FRACTIONATED view of this cognitive construct manifests itself clearly in distinct strands of WM-language research, where two contrasting research paradigms have emerged (Wen 2012). |
Type: | Peer Reviewed Journal Article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/7775 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0261444813000517 |
Appears in Collections: | English Language & Literature - Publication |
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