1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Input Processing

Edited By Wynne Wong, Joe Barcroft Copyright 2024
420 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This state-of-the-science handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of input processing in second language acquisition. The volume assesses past and current research on input processing and engages the reader in critical reflection about the current state of the field and what lies ahead for future research, theory-building, and implications for language instruction. The handbook considers... Read more

List of Figures

 

List of Tables

 

List of Contributors

 

Acknowledgements

 

Ch 1 Introduction: Input Processing, Where Language Acquisition Begins

Wynne Wong & Joe Barcroft

 

PART I: INPUT PROCESSING: TYPES AND CONTEXTS

 

Ch 2 Multilevel Input Processing: The Framework and Its Future

Joe Barcroft

 

Ch 3 Input Processing in Spoken Versus Written Language

Ronald P. Leow & Fei Li

 

Ch 4 Input Processing in L1 Acquisition and Simultaneous Bilingualism

John Schwieter & Alessandro Benati

 

PART II: ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORIES

 

Ch 5 Input Processing in Generative Second Language Acquisition

Laurent Dekydtspotter

 

Ch 6 Input Processing and Usage-Based Approaches

Alfonso Morales-Front & Joe Barcroft

 

Ch 7 Input Processing in Conceptual Semantics

Susanne E. Carroll & Lindsay Hracs

 

PART III: ISSUES IN OTHER THEORIES AND MODELS

 

Ch 8 VanPatten’s Theory of Input Processing in L2 Acquisition

Michael J. Leeser

 

Ch 9 Input Processing as an Interaction Between Internal and External Context: The Modular Cognition Framework

Michael Sharwood Smith & John Truscott

 

Ch 10 The Declarative/Procedural Model and Input Processing

Sarah Grey

 

Ch 11 The Type of Processing – Resource Allocation (TOPRA) Model

Shusaku Kida

 

PART IV: MECHANISMS OF INPUT PROCESSING AND THE ACQUISITION OF MORPHOSYNTAX

 

Ch 12 Attention to Form and Meaning: VanPatten (1990) and Beyond

Cristina Sanz

 

Ch 13 Lexical Preference in Input Processing

Justin P. White & Wynne Wong

 

Ch 14 The First-noun Principle

Russell Simonsen & Bill VanPatten

 

Ch 15 Roles of Interaction and Output in Input Processing

Janire Zalbidea & Paul Toth

 

PART V: MECHANISMS OF INPUT PROCESSING AND THE ACQUISITION OF PHONOLOGY, LEXIS, AND PRAGMATICS

 

Ch 16 Input Processing and the Acquisition of Phonology

Annie Tremblay

 

Ch 17 Input Processing and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition

Susanne Rott

 

Ch 18 Input Processing and Intentional Vocabulary Acquisition

Akifumi Yanagisawa

 

Ch 19 Input Processing and the Acquisition of Pragmatics

Friederike Fichtner

 

PART VI: INPUT PROCESSING AND SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

 

Ch 20 Thirty Years of Processing Instruction and Structured Input

Wynne Wong

 

Ch 21 Explicit Information, Input Processing, and Second Language Acquisition

Nick Henry

 

Ch 22 Comprehensible Input in Language Instruction: Approaches and Techniques

Philippa Bell & Caroline Payant

 

Ch 23 Approaches to Vocabulary Instruction from an Input Processing Perspective

Brent Wolter

 

PART VII: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH ON INPUT PROCESSING

 

Ch 24 A Systematic Methodological Review of offline Input Processing Research

Simón Ruiz & Patrick Rebuschat

 

Ch 25 Research on Online Input Processing: Self-Paced Reading, Eye-tracking, ERPs, and Beyond

Jill Jegerski

 

Ch 26 Think-aloud protocol, Trials-to-criterion, and Triangulation Between Online and Offline Measures in IP Research

Silvia Marijuan

 

Epilogue: Interview with Bill VanPatten

 

Index

Biography

Wynne Wong is Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition at The Ohio State University, USA. She is the author of Input Enhancement: From Theory and Research to the Classroom (2005) and lead author of two French textbooks: Liaisons (2013, 2019) and Encore (2016, 2020). She is/has been on the editorial board of the journal Instructed Second Language Acquisition and on the advisory committee of The Canadian Modern Language Review.

Joe Barcroft is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition and Affiliate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. His books include Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning (2015); Input-Based Incremental Vocabulary Acquisition (2012); and the volume, co-edited with Javier Muñoz-Basols, Spanish Vocabulary Learning in Meaning-Oriented Instruction (2021).

This comprehensive and balanced collection of papers on learning from input processing will be welcomed by those beginning their study of input processing as well as those who are familiar with the field. The papers included tackle the major issues and do so with clarity and authority. It is especially pleasing to see that vocabulary is now getting the attention it deserves in this crucial area of second language acquisition.

Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

This impressive handbook comprehensively brings together key topics in input processing as written by renowned scholars and remarkably establishes connections with related theoretical, empirical, methodological, and pedagogical work. Thus, it offers innovative directions for understanding input processing and second/additional language acquisition more generally.

Kara Morgan-Short, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

In this cutting-edge and mesmerizingly insightful handbook, Drs. Wong and Barcroft share the writings of a generation’s worth of wisdom on the brain’s mechanisms in acquiring new languages. This is a volume every applied linguist should read.

Paula Winke, Michigan State University, USA

This volume is a testament to the longevity and the intellectual force that is input processing in the field of SLA. Decades in the making, yet current and cutting edge, the text’s contributions and their individual contributors—led by Wynne Wong and Joe Barcroft—have simultaneously consolidated and propelled our understanding of input processing at the nexus of theory, empirical research, and practice.

Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University