The Topic of This Article is The Relationship Between Literacy and Oral Language Processing and its Implications for Research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

Abstract

As previously stated, the present study anticipates that the examination of oral language processing will have a substantial impact on applied linguistics. This study focuses on the impact of literacy on people's comprehension of spoken language. When it comes to activities involving understanding language structure, there is a clear difference in performance between persons who can read and those who cannot. These findings indicate that the capacity to comprehend and produce written language in an alphabetic script influences the neural processing of spoken language during specific cognitive activities. Recent research on first language acquisition has redirected its attention towards examining the impact of literacy on an individual's linguistic development and skill. This move is motivated by the observation of a favorable association between literacy and the ability to process oral language. This study provides a thorough analysis of current scholarly publications and research, emphasizing their importance in the field of second-language acquisition. More precisely, it examines the implications of these findings for theories and studies that aim to understand the influence of "noticing" on second language acquisition. Lastly, we want to underline the significance of include individuals who have been acknowledged as having low literacy levels in our expanding database of participants for second language studies, both from a theoretical and social standpoint.