Thursday, January 07, 2016

Why this aversion towards psycho-linguistics, ELT?



Why? Why ELT? Why is this aversion towards psycho-linguistics? Tell us the reason.

Hmm. There are reasons. ELT is skeptical of psycholinguistics because it, once upon a time had borne the techniques of audio-lingualism, pattern practice, etc. which did not quite enhance the field. Therefore, ELT likes to see linguistics as its parent discipline. May be, even socio-linguistics can be seen as a parent of ELT, But certainly not psycholinguistics.

In fact, this has caused ELT troubles. Because of the aversion, ELT has been diverted from psycholinguistics for most of its life. The attention psycholinguistics must have received was taken away by linguistics and socio-linguistics.

Moreover, psycholinguistics is of secondary importance to linguistically motivated 'universalist account', and 'socio-linguistic generalizations'. This is because psycholinguistics emphasizes on information processing and cognitive abilities (which are the objectives of cognitive psychology). The widespread assumption was that 'the module that helps acquire language affects our perceptions on second language acquisition. This led to the sidelining of psycholinguistics!

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