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Prediction and Error-Based Learning in L2 Processing and Acquisition: A Conceptual Review
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Bovolenta, Giulia; Marsden, Emma – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
There is currently much interest in the role of prediction in language processing, both in L1 and L2. For language acquisition researchers, this has prompted debate on the role that predictive processing may play in both L1 and L2 language learning, if any. In this conceptual review, we explore the role of prediction and prediction error as a…
Descriptors: Prediction, Error Analysis (Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate Topics in L2 Acquisition and L2 Processing
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Roberts, Leah; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
Second language (L2) researchers are becoming more interested in both L2 learners' knowledge of the target language and how that knowledge is put to use during real-time language processing. Researchers are therefore beginning to see the importance of combining traditional L2 research methods with those that capture the moment-by-moment…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Research
The Evolving Context of the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis
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Bley-Vroman, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
Foreign language learning contrasts with native language development in two key respects: It is unreliable and it is nonconvergent. At the same time, it is clear that foreign languages are languages. The fundamental difference hypothesis (FDH) was introduced as a way to account for the general characteristics of foreign language learning. The FDH…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Representation and Embodiment of Meaning in L2 Communication: Motion Events in the Speech and Gesture of Advanced L2 Korean and L2 English Speakers
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Choi, Soojung; Lantolf, James P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2008
This study investigates the interface between speech and gesture in second language (L2) narration within Slobin's (2003) thinking-for-speaking (TFS) framework as well as with respect to McNeill's (1992, 2005) growth point (GP) hypothesis. Specifically, our interest is in whether speakers shift from a first language (L1) to a L2 TFS pattern as…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Cartoons, Motion
Implicit and Explicit Processes.
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MacWhinney, Brian – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Comments on changes in the relation between experimental psychology and second language acquisition research. Notes that new themes borrowed from experimental psychology include practice effects, the power law, connectionism, implicit learning and miniature artificial languages. Argues that attempts to attribute language learning to implicit or…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Change Agents, Experimental Psychology, Language Processing
Toward a Lexical Processing Model for the Study of Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition. Evidence from ESL Reading.
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de Bot, Kees; Paribakht, T-Sima; Wesche, Marjorie Bingham – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Explores the relevance of a model for second language (L2) lexical organization and processing, with particular attention to its mental lexicon components, i.e., concepts, lemmas, and lexemes; and organization. Argues that the process of inferring the features of unknown words in a reading passage can be described in terms of lemma construction,…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, English (Second Language), Higher Education