Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

Constructivist views of language acquisition hold that simple learning mechanisms
operating in and across human systems for perception, motor action, and cognition while …

Two experiments examined the learning of form-meaning connections under conditions
where the relevant forms were noticed but the critical aspects of meaning were not …

Three experiments using online-processing measures explored whether native and non-
native Spanish-speaking adults use gender-marked articles to identify referents of target …

The present study explores knowledge of Spanish grammatical gender in both
comprehension and production by heritage language speakers and second language (L2) …

We constantly use implicit knowledge in everyday action and perception. The father who
tries to teach his child to ride a bicycle immediately realises that, despite riding to work every …

The latest title in the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series presents a
comprehensive review of connectionist research in second language acquisition (SLA) …

We examined how age of acquisition in Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners interacts
with implicitness vs. explicitness of tasks in gender processing of canonical and non …

The human brain receives massive amounts of information every minute, and working
memory limits how much data can be computed in real time. The brain selects what is …

Two experiments examined the relationship between individual differences in phonological
memory (PM) and the ability to learn determiner–noun agreement rules in semiartificial …