Critiquing Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Theories
Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics - Psycholinguistic Theory
Psycholinguistic theory falls under the general concept of Constructivism; it is regarded as the study of relationship between psychological process and linguistic behavior including the concept of language acquisition (Tracey & Morrow, 2012). The evidence from which the theory was based upon is the assumption that language is a primary process of reading. There are three major components of the theory that are also referred to as cues such as semantic, syntactic and Graphophonic. Syntactic refers to the pattern that dictates how the word combination constructs the sentences or otherwise the ...