RETHINKING EFL DEVELOPMENT: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE LEARNING, LITERACY, AND COMMUNICATION

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JUDUL BUKU : RETHINKING EFL DEVELOPMENT: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE LEARNING, LITERACY, AND COMMUNICATION

PENULIS : Zulkifli Tanipu, Novi Rusnarty Usu, Nur Rizka Kadir, Ikha Hardiyanti Puspita Mahading

HALAMAN : vii, 276

SINOPSIS :

Why do many EFL learners continue to struggle with fluency, comprehension, and academic communication despite years of instruction? This book argues that such difficulties cannot be understood solely in terms of teaching methods, motivation, or exposure to English. Drawing on psycholinguistic perspectives, it reconceptualises EFL development as a cognitive process shaped by attention, working memory, cognitive load, processing efficiency, literacy engagement, and communicative experience. Rather than focusing only on what learners know, the book examines how language is processed, organised, retrieved, and used under real learning conditions.

Bringing together insights from psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, literacy studies, and language education, the book explores a wide range of issues, including learning stagnation, formulaic language, metalinguistic awareness, translanguaging, multimodal learning, assessment, and educational inequality. Written for students, researchers, teacher educators, and language professionals, it offers a coherent framework for understanding EFL development in contemporary educational contexts and invites readers to rethink language learning through the lens of cognition, literacy, and sustainable communicative development.