ABSTRACT A number of issues concerning the role of consciousness in foreign language
learning are identified, defined, and shown to be essentially the same as issues that have …

There has been a growing popular fascination with how experts make rapid and effective
decisions. This interest has been paralleled in various scientific research communities …

" The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely
and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated.... Harris writes what a sizable …

One very active research tradition in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) attempts
to establish causal relationships between environmental factors and learning. These include …

The so-called bias blind spot arises when people report that thinking biases are more
prevalent in others than in themselves. Bias turns out to be relatively easy to recognize in the …

Abstract The" conscious" vs." unconscious" controversy is a core issue in both second and
foreign language pedagogy and applied linguistics theory, but at the present time there is no …

A number of ways of taxonomizing human learning have been proposed. We examine the
evidence for one such proposal, namely, that there exist independent explicit and implicit …

Implicit learning is nonepisodic learning of complex information in an incidental manner,
without awareness of what has been learned. Implicit learning experiments use 3 different …

Although commentators periodically declare that Freud is dead, his repeated burials lie on
shaky grounds. Critics typically attack an archaic version of psychodynamic theory that most …

This study examines the generalizability of claims by Reber (1989, 1993) about the implicit
learning of artificial grammars to the context of adult second language acquisition (SLA). In …