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  2. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition - Wikipedia

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    Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of linguistics focusing on the study of multilingualism, including bilingual language competence, perception and production, bilingual language acquisition in children and adults, neurolinguistics of bilingualism (in normal and brain-damaged populations), and non-linguistic cognitive processes in bilinguals.

  3. Intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Intelligence enables humans to remember descriptions of things and use those descriptions in future behaviors. It gives humans the cognitive abilities to learn, form concepts, understand, and reason, including the capacities to recognize patterns, innovate, plan, solve problems, and employ language to communicate.

  4. Metacognition - Wikipedia

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    Metacognition refers to a level of thinking and metacognitive regulation, the regulation of cognition and subsequent learning experiences that help people enhance their learning through a set of activities. It involves active control over the process of thinking used in learning situations.

  5. Usage-based models of language - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics. The usage-based linguistics is a linguistics approach within a broader functional / cognitive framework, that emerged since the late 1980s, and that assumes a profound relation between linguistic structure and usage. [1] It challenges the dominant focus, in 20th century linguistics (and in particular in formalism - generativism ...

  6. Cognitive skill - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive functioning refers to a person's ability to process thoughts. It is defined as "the ability of an individual to perform the various mental activities most closely associated with learning and problem-solving. Examples include the verbal, spatial, psychomotor, and processing-speed ability." [4] Cognition mainly refers to things like ...

  7. Language development - Wikipedia

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    Language development in humans is a process which starts early in life. Infants start without knowing a language, yet by 10 months, babies can distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling. Some research has shown that the earliest learning begins in utero when the fetus starts to recognize the sounds and speech patterns of its mother's ...

  8. Cognitive science - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive science. Figure illustrating the fields that contributed to the birth of cognitive science, including linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and psychology [1] Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. [2] It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions ...

  9. Learner autonomy - Wikipedia

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    There have been numerous studies relating the cognitive factors associated with autonomous learning. The salient characteristics associated with autonomous learning (resourcefulness, initiative, and persistence) are crucial for high school-level students. Currently, the school structure in place in the US is composed of a ladder system of ...