This article examines the Noticing Hypothesis–the claim that second language learners
must consciously notice the grammatical form of their input in order to acquire grammar. I …

Getting to know a second language is an act of cognition par excellence. Yet'Cognitive
Approaches to SLA'implies something more than the general research enterprise of SLA. It …

Explicit Learning in the L2 Classroom offers a unique five-prong (theoretical, empirical,
methodological, pedagogical, and model building) approach to the issue of explicit learning …

ABSTRACT A number of issues concerning the role of consciousness in foreign language
learning are identified, defined, and shown to be essentially the same as issues that have …

The ability to automatically and implicitly detect complex and noisy regularities in the
environment is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. Despite considerable interest in …

This paper provides an overview of sequencing in SLA. It contends that much of language
acquisition is in fact sequence learning (for vocabulary, the phonological units of language …

En este artículo se discuten los aspectos fundamentales de la teoría lingüística de Noam
Chomsky, una de la más importantes y polémicas formas de explicar la adquisición …

Tonal music is a highly structured system that is ubiquitous in our cultural environment. We
demonstrate the acquisition of implicit knowledge of tonal structure through neural self …

The conditions (implicit or explicit) under which exposure to L2 input takes place and the
level of awareness raised while processing input may be strongly related to the learning …

This study examines evidence for the claims of Krashen (1981, 1985) and Reber (1989,
1993; Reber, Walkenfield & Hernstadt, 1991) that unconscious learning under Implicit and …