Investigations in instructed second language acquisition [electronic resource] / edited by Alex Housen, Michel Pierrard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Investigating cognitive and processing mechanisms in instructed SLA -- Instructed learners' fluency and implicit/explicit language processes / Liz Temple -- Psycholinguistic aspects of gender acquisition in instructed GFL learning / Barbara Menzel -- Language analytic ability and oral production in a second language / Leila Ranta -- Formal instruction and the acquisition of verbal morphology / Kira Gor and Tatiana Chernigovskaya -- Investigating the role and effects of form-focused instruction -- Teaching marked linguistic structures--more about the acquisition of relative clauses by Arab learners of English / Ahlem Ammar and Patsy M. Lightbown -- The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit form-focussed instruction / Nina Spada, Patsy M. Lightbown and Joanna L. White -- Rule complexity and the efficacy of explicit grammar instruction / Alex Housen, Michel Pierrard, and Siska van Daele -- Focus on formS as a means of improving accurate oral production / Ronald Sheen -- Instructed second language vocabulary learning / Batia Laufer -- Investigating the role and effects interaction and communication-focused instruction -- Negative feedback and learner uptake in analytic foreign language teaching / Katja Lochtman -- Noticing and the role of interaction in promoting language learning / Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder -- Interactional strategies for interlanguage communication / Maria del Pilar Garc�ia Mayo -- Assessment of the role of communication tasks in the development of second language oral production skills / Peter Griggs -- Language learning in content-based instruction / Heini-Marja J�arvinen -- Effects of teacher discourse on learner discourse in a second language classroom / Tsuyoshi Kida -- Comparing the effects of instructed and naturalistic L2 acquisition contexts -- Second language acquisition in a study abroad context / Martin Howard -- The effect of type of acquisition context on perception and self-reported use of swearwords in the L2, L3, L4 and L5 / Jean-Marc Dewaele.

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