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Implicit Learning in SLA and the Issue of Internal Validity: A Response to Leung and Williams's (2011) "The Implicit Learning of Mappings between Forms and Contextually Derived Meanings"
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Leow, Ronald P.; Hama, Mike – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
There is a growing theoretical, empirical, and methodological debate in the SLA field as to whether unawareness plays a role during attention to or processing of new incoming second language (L2) data. Indeed, studies that have methodologically addressed the construct of unawareness in their research designs offer both empirical support (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Attention, Language Processing, Incidental Learning
The Incidental Acquisition of English Plural "-S" by Japanese Children in Comprehension-Based and Production-Based Lessons: A Process-Product Study
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Shintani, Natsuko; Ellis, Rod – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
Most studies that have investigated the effects of instruction on the SLA of specific grammatical features have focused on intentional learning. This study investigated incidental acquisition by comparing the relative effects of two types of instruction--comprehension-based instruction (CBI) and production-based instruction (PBI)--on young…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Nouns
Cognitive Abilities, Chunk-Strength, and Frequency Effects in Implicit Artificial Grammar and Incidental L2 Learning: Replications of Reber, Walkenfeld, and Hernstadt (1991) and Knowlton and Squire (1996) and Their Relevance for SLA
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Robinson, Peter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
This paper reports replications of studies of implicit artificial grammar (AG) learning and explicit series-solution learning with experienced second language learners in order to examine their population and content generalizability. As found by Reber, Walkenfeld, and Hernstadt (1991), there was significantly greater variance in explicit compared…
Descriptors: Sentences, Test Items, Grammar, Incidental Learning