07 Jan 2024
Practicing conversational skills with chatbots has become an innovative method in language learning. The AI-powered communication partners have demonstrated multiple advantages compared to human partners, such as being less time-consuming and less anxiety-induced. Moreover, students’ interest in the innovative learning...
Chatbots Language Acquisition
07 Jan 2024
How written words are encoded and decoded by the human brain? To pursue an answer to this question, we review on research in sentence processing and left corner parsing theories. We particularize the models and results in five studies that...
Sentence Processing Left Corner Parsing
15 Jan 2023
The ultimate attainment of the L2 possesses broad significance in both language pedagogy, human cognition and neuroscience and draws fierce debate in the academic circle. The Critical Period Hypothesis(CPH) argues that such a key period for learning L1 is also...
Critical Period Hypothesis Language Acquisition
19 Jun 2022
Research on the comprehension and production deficits of agrammatic aphasia has been conducted extensively. This paper briefly presents and compares several influenced hypotheses which were put forward to explain the underlying reason for agrammatism and provides a personal perspective on...
Agrammatic Aphasia Language Comprehension and Production
12 Jun 2022
Context is essential for language comprehension. When we read sentences, context offers information about word meaning, part of speech and its representation in the world. Context has the effect of facilitating our recognition of words whose meaning is congruous with...
Context Effects Word Processing
08 May 2022
Hearing impairment is diagnosed when a person’s hearing thresholds are above 20 db HL. Infants receive Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) on the first day after birth. Empirical studies show that post-neonatal screening is also indispensable, which has already been...
Hearing Impairment Chidren Assessment Intervention methods