The Role of Psyhcolinguistics in Analyzing a Language Acquisition, Comprehension, and Production

input. Moreover, the lexical representation will make syntax and semantics emerge from information from words or sentences. 

c. Sequential Processing 

Processing of words in the brain that will be made into sentences. This process will have a close relationship with the sentence based on the information provided. 

d. Discourse Processing 

Discourse is built to examine the information drawn from informants so that it can provide results from processing the discourse (Fonteneau et al., 1998). 

Language Production 

Language production is a language skill. The theory of language production explains that speaking will not be difficult if done intuitively (Arai, 2016). Psycholinguistics describes concepts that will help in understanding the concept itself. Therefore, there are two processing models in this stage: the lexical access model and the serial model. Psycholinguistics sees that these two models provide a conceptual understanding of why speech can be produced with various forms. 

In addition, psycholinguistics finds processes in almost all language production processes. When the message has been identified, it will be coded linguistically.  This process is part of lexical selection. Then, semantics comes to add the process of language production. That is, the words obtained will be processed according to their meaning. Both selections present information related to meaning and grammar. The grammatical information is used for the next step, such as grammatical coding. Just like understanding language,  grammatical information will identify syntactically a word consisting of nouns, verbs, and others. 

Psycholinguistics in language teaching 

Previously, the scope of psycholinguistics was explained, which explains how a person acquires their language. After that, this article will explain how to teach language using an approach from psycholinguistics. In general, skills in communication or language consist of listening, reading, speaking, and writing. This aspect has become the basis for acquiring and developing one's first and second language. Of the four skills, psycholinguistics is able to help from any problems contained in it, such as classifying students' problems in language learning. 

Some things will be learned through psycholinguistics towards language teaching.  Psycholinguistics will provide insight into the psychology of language and discourse. In-depth, it can be said that language will be produced in the human brain. However, psycholinguistics exists to fulfill the intellectual intake of language learning. Therefore, Demirezen (2004) proposed that the  application of psycholinguistics can be seen in the inclusion of psycholinguistic sciences into  four language skills: