Manfred pienemann biography of abraham

The Teachability Hypothesis was produced by Manfred Pienemann.^[1] It was originally extracted from Pienemann's Processibility model. It proposes that learners will acquire a second language (L2) features if what is being taught is relatively close to their stage in language development.^[1]

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The Teachability Hypothesis is based on previous psycholinguistic research in second language acquisition done by Meisel, Clahsen, and Pienemann (1981) and is reflective in Pienemann's Processibility theory.^[2] The hypothesis reports that some aspects of language are sequenced in a way that follows the developmental levels of language in which Pienemann coined those these features as 'developmental'.^[3] This sequence is reflective of the natural stages that learners will go through when learning a second language.^[4] Pienemann (1984) emphasizes that teachability of L2 structures have psychological cons LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT JYZAP