Birds, bees, and switches: psycholinguistic issues 1967–2017

• Autores: Jean Aitchison
• Localización: ELT journal: An international journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, ISSN 0951-0893, Vol. 47, Nº 2, 1993, págs. 107-116
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article derives from a paper given at the IATEFL Silver Jubilee Seminar in February 1992. Speakers were invited to select a theme, in this case the learner, consider developments over the last twenty-five years and predict what might be the issues of the next twenty-five. The article selects three important psycholinguistic ideas, one from the 1960s (the ‘bees’ of the title), one from the 1970s (‘birds’), and one from the 1980s (‘switches’), and discusses their value for ELT. It then makes a number of predictions for the future.