Longitudinal effects of working memory on L2 grammar and reading abilities

N Sagarra - Second Language Research, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Adults demonstrate difficulty and pronounced variability when develo** second language
(L2) grammatical knowledge and reading skills. We examine explanations in terms of …

When more is better: Higher L1/L2 similarity, L2 proficiency, and working memory facilitate L2 morphosyntactic processing

N Sagarra - Research on Second Language Processing and …, 2021 - degruyter.com
This chapter investigates the role of first language (L1) transfer, second language (L2)
proficiency, and working memory (WM) on processing subject-verb number agreement in …

The role of task-essential training and working memory in offline and online morphological processing

M Dracos, N Henry - Languages, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the effects of task-essential training on offline and online processing
of verbal morphology and explores how working memory (WM) modulates the effects of …

Individual differences in working memory and instructed SLA

N Sagarra - The Routledge Handbook of Second Language …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This study examines the association between verbal working memory (WM) and L2
grammar learning. A pool of 330 beginning English learners of Spanish completed Waters …

The Independent and Combined Effects of Cognitive and Affective Variables on the L2 Acquisition of French Grammatical Gender Agreement

SÉ Côté - 2021 - search.proquest.com
A defining characteristic of second language (L2) acquisition is the well-attested variability
observed between learners, often despite comparable exposure to the target language. In …

Benefits of Study Abroad and Working Memory on L2 Morphosyntactic Processing

S Nuria, LB Ryan - The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Inflected languages mark semantic information with lexical cues (eg, explicit subjects) and
morphological cues (eg, suffixes)(Evans, 2003), but adult second language (L2) learners …