Alexander Z Guiora
Biographic Data
| ID | 146534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Z Guiora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Guiora |
| SIGNATURE | GUIORA A Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Language Sciences-The Challenges Ahead A Farewell Address
I shall be separating from Language Learning, at the end of 2005, after 27 years on my watch as the general editor and executive director of the journal. For close to 40 years I have been a participant-observer of the ever-changing landscape of applied linguistics, or the language sciences, as I prefer to call it. In 1978 I was invited, quite unexpectedly, by the Board of Directors to the helm of what was then called Language Learning-A Journal o…
Epilogue
Language Learning Jubilee
The Language Learning Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Program 1996-1997
The Language Learning Distingushed Scholar-in-Residence Program
The Language Learning Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Program 1995-1996
From the General Editor
The Dialectic of Language Acquisition
Language and Concept Formation
Language Environment and Gender Identity Attainment1
This study attempted to explore the question whether sex-determined grammatical gender loading in the native language will have an effect on the development of gender identity. The empirical question asked was, Will there be a relationship between the amount of linguistic emphasis on sex-determined gender and the average age of attaining gender identity in children, in a specific language environment? Three groups of children, one in Israel, one …
The Effects of Benzodiazepine (Valium) on Permeability of Language Ego Boundaries 1
This study was designed as an extension of previous research in which pronunciation of a foreign language was experimentally manipulated using alcohol or hypnosis, to confirm a relationship between permeability of language ego boundaries and pronunciation. The present study used Benzodiazepine (Valium) to manipulate pronunciation in Thai. Seventy-five subjects were assigned to one of four treatment conditions: Placebo, 2 mg., 5 mg., or 10 mg., an…
Personality and Language Behavior
This restatement of the theoretical framework underlying the research program of the University of Michigan Personality and Language Behavior Research Group addresses two theoretical issues that are at present particularly relevant to a theory of second language acquisition: the statue of constructs in the theory that have been transported or transposed from other fields, and the process (and criteria) of theory validation. Defining and assessing…
Causation or Correlation
Peer Reviewed
A Cross-cultural Study of Symbolic Meaning-developmental Aspects1
Twenty three Israeli kindergarteners and sixteen Israeli college students were tested on a variant of the Semantic Differential Test developed by Guiora (1976) to test the hypothesis that young Israeli children, like adults, are not influenced by the prevalence of grammatical gender in the language but ascribe sexual meanings to the test words based on their assumed connotative values.The results bore out the original hypothesis, suggesting that …
Language and Person Studies in Language Behavior1
Starting with an interest in basic psychological processes, whose complexity is matched only by the difficulty of their study, we developed what seemed to us to be more appropriate research strategies-the so-called transpositional research-and forged a link between the acquisition of native-like second language pronunciation ability and certain personality constructs, such as empathy. From there we pursued over the years a line of inquiry that st…
Grammatical gender and gender identity development
Peer Reviewed
Empathy and Second Language Learning1
The study reported here represents the culmination of the development and application of a research strategy whereby hypotheses generated in the clinical circumstance are transposed to a behavioral realm where more rigorous, reproducible, reliable, and valid experimentation is feasible (Guiora 1970). Our concern has chiefly been to apply this strategy to the concept of empathy, choosing as the transposed realm of behavior, language, in particular…
Psychological Variables and Ability to Pronounce a Second Language
The following study tested the hypothesis that the ability to speak a second language authentically or like a native speaker was related to an individual's sensitivity to cues in interpersonal situations, his empathic capacity. A test of empathy consisted of silent film clips shown at various speeds; subjects were asked to indicate each change in facial expression they observed. A test group of 28 University students took this and additional cont…
On Clinical Diagnosis and Prediction
This paper distinguishes among three different modes of comprehending through which diagnostic and predictive clinical judgments are reached. A brief discussion and definition of each of these modes, that is, inference, empathy, and intuition, are offered in order to indicate that differentiation is possible. It is felt that continued exploration of these processes promises to provide more fruitful understanding of what is now often accepted mere…
Empathy and Second Language Learning1
The study reported here represents the culmination of the development and application of a research strategy whereby hypotheses generated in the clinical circumstance are transposed to a behavioral realm where more rigorous, reproducible, reliable, and valid experimentation is feasible (Guiora 1970). Our concern has chiefly been to apply this strategy to the concept of empathy, choosing as the transposed realm of behavior, language, in particular…
Language Environment and Gender Identity Attainment1
This study attempted to explore the question whether sex-determined grammatical gender loading in the native language will have an effect on the development of gender identity. The empirical question asked was, Will there be a relationship between the amount of linguistic emphasis on sex-determined gender and the average age of attaining gender identity in children, in a specific language environment? Three groups of children, one in Israel, one …
Language and Person Studies in Language Behavior1
Starting with an interest in basic psychological processes, whose complexity is matched only by the difficulty of their study, we developed what seemed to us to be more appropriate research strategies-the so-called transpositional research-and forged a link between the acquisition of native-like second language pronunciation ability and certain personality constructs, such as empathy. From there we pursued over the years a line of inquiry that st…
Personality and Language Behavior
This restatement of the theoretical framework underlying the research program of the University of Michigan Personality and Language Behavior Research Group addresses two theoretical issues that are at present particularly relevant to a theory of second language acquisition: the statue of constructs in the theory that have been transported or transposed from other fields, and the process (and criteria) of theory validation. Defining and assessing…
A Cross-cultural Study of Symbolic Meaning-developmental Aspects1
Twenty three Israeli kindergarteners and sixteen Israeli college students were tested on a variant of the Semantic Differential Test developed by Guiora (1976) to test the hypothesis that young Israeli children, like adults, are not influenced by the prevalence of grammatical gender in the language but ascribe sexual meanings to the test words based on their assumed connotative values.The results bore out the original hypothesis, suggesting that …
Psychological Variables and Ability to Pronounce a Second Language
The following study tested the hypothesis that the ability to speak a second language authentically or like a native speaker was related to an individual's sensitivity to cues in interpersonal situations, his empathic capacity. A test of empathy consisted of silent film clips shown at various speeds; subjects were asked to indicate each change in facial expression they observed. A test group of 28 University students took this and additional cont…
The Effects of Benzodiazepine (Valium) on Permeability of Language Ego Boundaries 1
This study was designed as an extension of previous research in which pronunciation of a foreign language was experimentally manipulated using alcohol or hypnosis, to confirm a relationship between permeability of language ego boundaries and pronunciation. The present study used Benzodiazepine (Valium) to manipulate pronunciation in Thai. Seventy-five subjects were assigned to one of four treatment conditions: Placebo, 2 mg., 5 mg., or 10 mg., an…
The Dialectic of Language Acquisition
On Clinical Diagnosis and Prediction
This paper distinguishes among three different modes of comprehending through which diagnostic and predictive clinical judgments are reached. A brief discussion and definition of each of these modes, that is, inference, empathy, and intuition, are offered in order to indicate that differentiation is possible. It is felt that continued exploration of these processes promises to provide more fruitful understanding of what is now often accepted mere…
Psychological Variables and Ability to Pronounce a Second Language
The following study tested the hypothesis that the ability to speak a second language authentically or like a native speaker was related to an individual's sensitivity to cues in interpersonal situations, his empathic capacity. A test of empathy consisted of silent film clips shown at various speeds; subjects were asked to indicate each change in facial expression they observed. A test group of 28 University students took this and additional cont…
Empathy and Second Language Learning1
The study reported here represents the culmination of the development and application of a research strategy whereby hypotheses generated in the clinical circumstance are transposed to a behavioral realm where more rigorous, reproducible, reliable, and valid experimentation is feasible (Guiora 1970). Our concern has chiefly been to apply this strategy to the concept of empathy, choosing as the transposed realm of behavior, language, in particular…
Grammatical gender and gender identity development
Peer Reviewed
Language and Person Studies in Language Behavior1
Starting with an interest in basic psychological processes, whose complexity is matched only by the difficulty of their study, we developed what seemed to us to be more appropriate research strategies-the so-called transpositional research-and forged a link between the acquisition of native-like second language pronunciation ability and certain personality constructs, such as empathy. From there we pursued over the years a line of inquiry that st…
Causation or Correlation
Peer Reviewed
A Cross-cultural Study of Symbolic Meaning-developmental Aspects1
Twenty three Israeli kindergarteners and sixteen Israeli college students were tested on a variant of the Semantic Differential Test developed by Guiora (1976) to test the hypothesis that young Israeli children, like adults, are not influenced by the prevalence of grammatical gender in the language but ascribe sexual meanings to the test words based on their assumed connotative values.The results bore out the original hypothesis, suggesting that …
Personality and Language Behavior
This restatement of the theoretical framework underlying the research program of the University of Michigan Personality and Language Behavior Research Group addresses two theoretical issues that are at present particularly relevant to a theory of second language acquisition: the statue of constructs in the theory that have been transported or transposed from other fields, and the process (and criteria) of theory validation. Defining and assessing…
The Effects of Benzodiazepine (Valium) on Permeability of Language Ego Boundaries 1
This study was designed as an extension of previous research in which pronunciation of a foreign language was experimentally manipulated using alcohol or hypnosis, to confirm a relationship between permeability of language ego boundaries and pronunciation. The present study used Benzodiazepine (Valium) to manipulate pronunciation in Thai. Seventy-five subjects were assigned to one of four treatment conditions: Placebo, 2 mg., 5 mg., or 10 mg., an…
Language Environment and Gender Identity Attainment1
This study attempted to explore the question whether sex-determined grammatical gender loading in the native language will have an effect on the development of gender identity. The empirical question asked was, Will there be a relationship between the amount of linguistic emphasis on sex-determined gender and the average age of attaining gender identity in children, in a specific language environment? Three groups of children, one in Israel, one …
Language and Concept Formation
The Dialectic of Language Acquisition
From the General Editor
The Language Learning Distingushed Scholar-in-Residence Program
The Language Learning Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Program 1995-1996
The Language Learning Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Program 1996-1997
Epilogue
Language Learning Jubilee
The Language Sciences-The Challenges Ahead A Farewell Address
I shall be separating from Language Learning, at the end of 2005, after 27 years on my watch as the general editor and executive director of the journal. For close to 40 years I have been a participant-observer of the ever-changing landscape of applied linguistics, or the language sciences, as I prefer to call it. In 1978 I was invited, quite unexpectedly, by the Board of Directors to the helm of what was then called Language Learning-A Journal o…
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