This book focuses on a number of contemporary mainstream theories in second language
(L2) acquisition research that have generated attention among scholars. Since the mid …

Implicit/explicit knowledge constitutes a key distinction in the study of second language
acquisition. This book reports a project that investigated ways of measuring implicit/explicit …

Imagine the speaker of Spanish learning English. In a conversation or discussion, she hears
someone say,“The police officer was killed by the robber.” Although for the native speaker it …

This study examines how topic familiarity and working memory capacity affect beginning
Spanish learners' reading comprehension and their processing of future tense morphology …

Form-meaning connections (FMCs) have long occupied the interest of second language
acquisition (SLA) researchers. From the early research on acquisition orders to current day …

This volume bridges the knowledge gap between second language acquisition researchers
and second language pedagogy professionals in its focus on a topic of mutual interest …

Input processing (IP) is concerned with the situations, the reason being that acquisition is, to
a certain degree, a by-product of comprehension. IP makes a number of claims about what …

The research reported here tests the claim made in the Input Processing approach to
second language (L2) acquisition that interpreting the meaning of language form is essential …

The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality Page 1 John
Benjamins Publishing Company Dalila Ayoun The Second Language Acquisition of French …

This study investigates the role of prosodic cues and explicit information (EI) in the
acquisition of German accusative case markers. We compared 4 groups of 3rd‐semester …