The basis of social learning theory is simple: People learn by watching other people. We can learn from anyone—teachers, parents, siblings, peers, co-workers, YouTube influencers, athletes, and even ...

Vol. 12, No. 4, Special Issue on GENERAL NATIVISM AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (October 1996), pp. 335-373 (39 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article is about nativist theories ...

Social learning theory is really a combination of two other kinds of learning theories. On the one hand, there is the cognitive learning theory, which states that the learning of an individual is ...

Audrey Rousse-Malpat has received funding from NWO (the national research organisation in the Netherlands). She works as a professor of language and language didactics at the University of Groningen ...

Alex Mangold received funding from the British Academy for the research mentioned in this article (Talent Development Award 2021). Sarah Pogoda received funding from the British Academy for the ...

In earlier parenting days, my family often passed car-ride time by playing One-Word Story. Each passenger sequentially contributed a single word to an evolving story. While the Pulitzer committee has ...

Over the past several years, there has been an increased research output in the field of language acquisition and its effects on the brain. This is especially true with regards to the effects of ...