Crosslinguistic influence has been seen in bilingual adult and child learners when compared to monolingual learners. For speakers of Light Warlpiri and Gurindji Kriol there is no monolingual group for comparison, yet crosslinguistic influence can be seen in how the speakers resolve competition between case-marking and word order systems in each…

Reports an Australian study of adult English-as-a-Second-Language learners of intermediate proficiency that compared their performance and examined their attention to grammar on four collaborative tasks. Data from researcher observations, recordings of student pair talk, and individual student retrospections indicated that attention to grammatical…