Consciousness and Second Language Learning

The book offers a novel view of consciousness and its place in second language learning, using the established cognitive framework, MOGUL. It also provides an extensive review of theories of consciousness and related cognitive theory and research, placing that work in the context of second language learning. This book explores the place of consciousness in second language learning. It offers extensive background information on theories of consciousness and provides a detailed consideration of both the nature of consciousness and the cognitive context in which it appears. It presents the established Modular Online Growth and Use of Language (MOGUL) framework and explains the place of consciousness within this framework to enable a cognitively conceptualised understanding of consciousness in second language learning. It then applies this framework to fundamental concerns of second language acquisition, those of perception and memory, looking at how second language representations come to exist in the mind and what happens to these representations once they have been established (memory consolidation and restructuring). Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Setting the Problem Part 1: Consciousness in Mind: Building a Framework 2. The Mind: Representation and Processing 3. Theories of Consciousness 4. MOGUL: A Framework for Understanding Consciousness and Learning 5. Consciousness in the MOGUL Framework Part 2: Consciousness in Second Language Learning: Applying the Framework 6. Consciousness in Second Language Learning: A Selective Review 7. Perception: Processing Input 8. Memory Consolidation and Restructuring 9. Conclusion: Consciousness in Second Language Learning References Author Index Subject Index