BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16741-df314ab7a710637dc5f935b91a52e613@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T064549Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160908T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160908T173000 SUMMARY:CRELLT invited speaker Dr. Brian MacWhinney presents “Limits on Success in Second Language Learning” DESCRIPTION:Some learners of second languages manage to attain near-nati ve levels of competence\, whereas others settle for \;very incomplet e \;levels even after decades of using a second language. \; Thi s wide variation in adult attainment contrasts sharply with the uniform success that children have in learning their first language\, suggesting that there is a critical period for language learning that expires some time during early adolescence. \; Accounts for this decline have con sidered the impact of biological mechanisms such as lateralization\, mye lination\, metabolic decline\, synaptic pruning\, and changes in NMDA re ceptor subtype\, as well as network features such as entrenchment and ga ng effects. None these accounts can explain the full range of patterns o f success and failure across the areas of phonological\, lexicon\, synta x\, intonation\, and conversational pragmatics.\n\nThe Unified Competiti on Model refocuses this discussion in terms of the dynamic interplay bet ween a set of risk factors facing adult learners and a set of protective or support factors that they can use to overcome the barriers establish ed by the risk factors. \; The risk factors are entrenchment\, trans fer\, overanalysis\, and social isolation. The support factors combating these risks are resonance\, decoupling\, chunking\, and participation.& nbsp\; The operation of each of these processes can be modeled by collec ting data from experimentation and corpus analysis. \; By examining in detail the differential operation of each of these factors on each li nguistic level\, we can gain a fuller picture of differences in patterns of second language acquisition in adulthood from which we can formulate effective ways of improving learning success.\n\nFor more details: http s://events.la.psu.edu/event/crellt-invited-speaker-dr-brian-macwhinney-p resents-limits-on-success-in-second-language-learning/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Some learners of second languages manage to attain near-native levels of com petence, whereas others settle for very incomplete levels even after decades of using a second language.  This wide variation in adult attainment contrasts sharply with the uniform success that childre n have in learning their first language, suggesting that there is a crit ical period for language learning that expires sometime during early ado lescence.  Accounts for this decline have considered the impact of biological mechanisms such as lateralization, myelination, metabolic dec line, synaptic pruning, and changes in NMDA receptor subtype, as well as network features such as entrenchment and gang effects. None these acco unts can explain the full range of patterns of success and failure acros s the areas of phonological, lexicon, syntax, intonation, and conversati onal pragmatics.

The Unified Competiti on Model refocuses this discussion in terms of the dynamic interplay bet ween a set of risk factors facing adult learners and a set of protective or support factors that they can use to overcome the barriers establish ed by the risk factors.  The risk factors are entrenchment, transfe r, overanalysis, and social isolation. The support factors combating the se risks are resonance, decoupling, chunking, and participation.  T he operation of each of these processes can be modeled by collecting dat a from experimentation and corpus analysis.  By examining in detail the differential operation of each of these factors on each linguistic level, we can gain a fuller picture of differences in patterns of second language acquisition in adulthood from which we can formulate effective ways of improving learning success.

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