Judit Kormos
List of John Benjamins publications for which Judit Kormos plays a role.
2014 Differences across modalities of performance: An investigation of linguistic and discourse complexity in narrative tasks Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing, Byrnes, Heidi and Rosa M. Manchón (eds.), pp. 193–216 | Article
This study investigated the linguistic and discourse differences between oral and written narrative performance on two tasks of different degrees of cognitive complexity. The participants of the study were 44 secondary school students in their second academic year of an English-Hungarian bilingual… read more
2013 New conceptualizations of language aptitude in second language attainment Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment, Granena, Gisela and Mike Long (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
This chapter discusses the link between working memory, phonological short-term memory and language aptitude and describes how these cognitive abilities influence second language-learning processes. I provide a critical review of the definitions and constructs of aptitude and elaborate on how… read more
2011 Chapter 2. Speech production and the Cognition Hypothesis Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance, Robinson, Peter (ed.), pp. 39–60 | Chapter
This chapter discusses how the Cognition Hypothesis can be applied in the study of L2 speech production. The paper presents a bilingual model of speech production, which also incorporates psycholinguistic processes involved in dialogic interactions, and discusses how attention is allocated in… read more
2011 Chapter 10. Working memory capacity and narrative
task performance Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance, Robinson, Peter (ed.), pp. 267–286 | Chapter
This study investigated the link between working memory capacity and narrative task performance. The participants of the study were 44 secondary school students in their second academic year of an English-Hungarian bilingual educational program in Hungary. The backward digit span test was used to… read more