The last 15 years has seen a tremendous growth in research on structural priming among
second language (L2) speakers. Structural priming is the phenomenon whereby speakers …

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume
for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated …

Linguistic alignment is defined as the development of aligned representations drawing on
an automatic psycholinguistic priming mechanism that acts on every level of linguistic …

The objective of this research was to provide longitudinal, corpus-based evidence of actual
teacher behaviour with respect to the teaching of second language (L2) pronunciation in a …

In second language (L2) writing classrooms, prewriting discussions are one of the most
commonly used collaborative activities (Fernández Dobao, 2012, Storch, 2005), yet there …

1. Theory and approaches in research into interaction, corrective feedback, and tasks in L2
learning--2. Designing studies of the roles of interaction, feedback and tasks in second …

Pronunciation plays an indisputable role in communication; even more so in communication
between native and non-native speakers of English. The goals for pronunciation teaching …

Although previous research has demonstrated the efficacy of recasts on second language
(L2) morphology and lexis (eg, Li, 2010; Mackey & Goo, 2007), few studies have examined …

This study focused on an instructional component often neglected when teaching the
pronunciation of English as either a second, foreign, or international language—namely, the …

Alignment refers to the largely automatic tendency of interlocutors to re-use each other's
language patterns in the course of authentic interaction (Pickering & Garrod, 2004) …