Design and Development of the Second language Proficiency Method based on Cognitive Ability of Learner

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, the modeling of phenomena that occurs in the brain related language was designed and developed the second language proficiency method. This method based on cognitive ability test in cognitive psychology that is the lexical decision task, the priming task and the verbal span task. The lexical decision task involves measuring how quickly decide stimuli as words or nonwords. This task is divided reading and listening according to stimulus type to the details. The priming task finds the output of the language. This task is divided the translation-priming and the semantic-priming according to stimulus type. The verbal span task finds the short term memory. In this paper, we propose the second language proficiency measurement method using the linguistics cognitive ability of the learner about the second language. Key Words : Cognitive ability, second language proficiency, Lexical decision task, Priming Task, Verbal span task * 고려대학교 컴퓨터 교육학과 박사과정 ** 고려대학교 컴퓨터 교육학과 교수(교신저자)논문접수: 2013년 1월 25일, 1차 수정을 거쳐, 심사완료: 2013년 2월 25일, 확정일: 2013년 3월 20일