المذهب الذهني في معالجة النمو اللغوي لدى مكتسبي اللغة الثانية : المفهوم و التطبيق

Abstract EN

The current study discuses a rapidly growing theory of psycholinguistics called Processability Theory (PT) (Pienemann, 1998), which explains the stages in which a second language is acquired by a second language (L2) learner.

The current study provides a discussion of PT’s theoretical framework and research methods including the five developmental stages and the emersion criterion.

It also explains the relationship between two important elements of the theory: i.e.

the psycholinguistic element and the linguistic element, and shows how the PT made use of Bresnan’s Lexical Functional Grammar Theory (LFG) (Bresnan, 2001) to predict the developmental level of a certain structure, and at the end, the current study overviews PT’s implications on teaching a second language, providing examples of number of different languages including Arabic.