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Judit Kormos – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This article revisits the role of cognitive individual differences in creating synergies between second language (L2) writing and second language acquisition research that were proposed by Kormos (2012). It takes stock of the advances in research findings, in the past decade, on the role of working memory and language learning aptitude in L2…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
Mora, Joan C.; Levkina, Mayya – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This article synthesizes the conclusions of the empirical studies in this special issue and outlines key questions in future research. The research reported in this volume has identified several fundamental issues in pronunciation-focused task design that are discussed in detail and on which suggestions for further research are outlined. One…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Educational Research, Research Problems
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

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
Becker, Angelika; Veenstra, Tonjes – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
In traditional classifications of languages by inflectional subsystems, both creole languages and the results of untutored SLA (interlanguages) are classified as isolating. We focus on remnants of verbal inflectional morphology in French-related creoles and ask: (a) Can the properties of verbal morphology be attributed to SLA, and (b) what does…
Descriptors: Creoles, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), French

Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Keyword mnemonics compares favorably to other devices for learning words in a foreign language. The keyword approach provides both an acoustic link between a native-language word and the second-language word and an image of the keyword interacting with the native-language word or phrase. (LMO)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education