Talk:Multi-competence

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:15, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Age Effects
Thinking about adding a section on age effects here. I have a source: Singleton, D., Lengyel, Z., eds. 1995. The age factor in second language aquisition: A critical look at the critical period hypothesis. Or we could possibly add the information directly to the second-language acquisition page? CRHeck (talk) 16:12, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
 * It would probably be a good idea to expand Second-language acquisition, yes, as long as it doesn't overwhelm the other sections. The idea is that Second-language acquisition should be a fairly brief overview of the subject, and that other articles should fill in the details. The SLA article could get a little longer, but probably not too much, and we should probably use summary style for any major planned additions. The details are all open to discussion, of course. Also, it would be good to work the critical period hypothesis article in there somehow. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 02:06, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Intention to Edit
I would like to add a small section on this page that discusses some multi-competence research. Some findings include:
 * - "Reverse transfer," which occurs when a learner's L2 interferes with their native language.
 * - How learning an L2 is associated with improved L1 reading, writing, and overall creativity.
 * - A newer supported theory that the L2 lexicon allows parallel access to words in both the L1 and L2. This results in an L2 user becoming distracted by word units present in both languages when they are asked to name native words.
 * - L2 users often have different voice-onset times (VOT) than the average speaker of either their native or second language.

Source:

Cook, Vivian (2008). "Multi-competence: Black hole or wormhole for second language acquisition research?" In Han, Zhaohong, ed. Understanding Second Language Process. North York (ON): Multilingual Matters. ISBN: 978-1-84769-014-2.

Thank you, CRHeck (talk) 00:34, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Go for it! You don't have to ask permission to edit Wikipedia. :) — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 01:08, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Nice work here. Do you think that in the last sentence of the lead, we need to say "real life" I'm wondering where else people use language? My suggestion is to delete "in real life". I realize this isnt' your bit, but anything is open for editing in Wiki. I added a link to interlanguage in Part 2. How about negative instead of impeding later in the same paragraph? Re the new theory in the 3rd paragraph of that section: can you name or it identify whether it conflicts or augments Cook's approach? The current sentence is vague. I deleted a chunk that was superfluous (research conducted...) but think you should cite the source of the claim about VOT. If it wasn't your claim, and you can't identify the source, then I suggest removing it. Marentette (talk) 23:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)


 * 1. Changed "real life" to "use regularly."
 * 2. Changed "impeding" to "negative."
 * 3. I would say the evidence on for a single lexicon supports Cook's theory, eh?
 * 4. Cited the source for VOT.


 * Thank you for your feedback! CRHeck (talk) 16:04, 20 November 2015 (UTC)