Implicit and Explicit Language Learning : Conditions, Processes, and Knowledge in SLA and Bilingualism.

Over the last several decades, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and psycholinguists have investigated the implicit and explicit continuum in language development and use from theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. This book addresses these perspectives in an effort to buil...

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Main Author: Sanz, Cristina
Other Authors: Leow, Ronald P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2011
Series:Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; PART I: THEORY; 2. Stubborn Syntax: How It Resists Explicit Teaching and Learning; 3. An Epitaph for Grammar: An Abridged History; 4. Implicit and Explicit SLA and Their Interface; 5. How Analysis and Control Lead to Advantages and Disadvantages in Bilingual Processing; PART II: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON AWARENESS, PEDAGOGICAL CONTEXTS, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SLA; 6. Getting a Grip on the Slippery Construct of Awareness: Toward a Finer-Grained Methodological Perspective.
  • 7. Aging, Pedagogical Conditions, and Differential Success in SLA: An Empirical Study8. Effects of Feedback Timing in SLA: A Computer-Assisted Study on the Spanish Subjunctive; 9. Working Memory Predicts the Acquisition of Explicit L2 Knowledge; 10. The Effects of Formal Instruction and Study Abroad Contexts on Foreign Language Development: The SALA Project; 11. Input Processing Principles: A Contribution from First-Exposure Data; PART III: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON L2 PHONOLOGY; 12. What Is Implicit and What Is Explicit in L2 Speech? Findings from an Oral Corpus.
  • 13. Explicit Training and Implicit Learning of L2 Phonemic ContrastsPART IV: EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON KEY ISSUES IN BILINGUALISM: AGING, THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, AND LANGUAGE SEPARATION; 14. English Speakers' Perception of Spanish Vowels: Evidence for Multiple-Category Assimilation; 15. Early Phonological Acquisition in a Set of English-Spanish Bilingual Twins; 16. Language Learning Strategies in Adult L3 Acquisition: Relationship between L3 Development, Strategy Use, L2 Levels, and Gender; 17. Effects of Bilingualism on Inhibitory Control in Elderly Brazilian Bilinguals.