This paper considers how implicit and explicit knowledge are dissociable but cooperative. It
reviews various psychological and neurobiological processes by which explicit knowledge …

There is a widespread conviction among cognitive psychologists that humans, and indeed
all animals, are equipped with powerful learning mechanisms for extracting regularities from …

Psycholinguistic accounts of language acquisition coincide on the major role that attention
plays in converting input to intake (Gass, 1997). According to Long (1991) and Swain …

In the present paper, I argue that much of the debate surrounding consciousness in SLA has
to do with a confusion between process, product, context and purpose. I argue for a process …

Knowing, using and learning a language are forms of what is often called cognition. Ideally,
theories of cognition account for its representation, processing, and acquisition. Linguists in …

Two experiments examined the learning of form-meaning connections under conditions
where the relevant forms were noticed but the critical aspects of meaning were not …

Cognitive Linguistics proposes that First Language Acquisition (L1A) involves the
acquisition from language usage of constructions that map linguistic form and function. In …

Second-language acquisition (SLA) research since the late 1960s has adopted either of two
approaches. One has been largely'context-free', relying heavily on linguistic and, to a lesser …

The fundamental claim of the declarative/procedural model is that the declarative and
procedural memory systems should play roles in language that are largely analogous to the …

This article addresses the roles of implicit learning, conscious hypothesis testing, and
explicit instruction in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). In particular it asks (1) what is the …