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For example, imagine that you are getting ready to go on a blind
date.
2. Speech production: How people produce language
Speech production is the process by which spoken words
are selected to be produced, have their phonetics formulated
and then finally is articulated by the motor system in the vocal
apparatus. Speech production can be spontaneous such as when a
person creates the words of a conversation, reaction such as
when they name a picture or read aloud a written word, or a
vocal imitation such as in speech repetition.
3. Language Acquisition: How people learn language
Language acquisition is the process by which humans
acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as
well as to produce and use words to communicate.
4. The Significance of Psycholinguistics for Language Teaching
and Learning
Learning the language is so that students should not only
master the language as a mere stand-alone systems, to arrive at
what is called the level of mastery of language skills to
manipulate it. Communication training should be given as early
as possible, if necessary in conjunction with the exercise of
language to make a correct sentence. Psycholinguistics is the
detailed study of the psychology of language. It helps to study
the psychological and neurobiological factors that make it
possible to assimilate and apply the languages we identify with.
Learning a language takes the cooperation of various
parties to realize a concrete outcome that may be far less the
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