A meta‐analysis was conducted to investigate the effects of explicit and implicit instruction
on the acquisition of simple and complex grammatical features in English. The target …

This study employed (and reports in detail) systematic procedures for research synthesis
and meta‐analysis to summarize findings from experimental and quasi‐experimental …

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks
covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning …

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume
for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated …

Brave New Digital Classroom examines the most effective ways to utilize technology in
language learning. The author deftly interweaves the latest results of pedagogical research …

The Introduction has three main aims. First, it provides a historical sketch of form‐focused
instruction research, documenting the origins of this branch of second language acquisition …

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

Implicit/explicit knowledge constitutes a key distinction in the study of second language
acquisition. This book reports a project that investigated ways of measuring implicit/explicit …

Imagine the speaker of Spanish learning English. In a conversation or discussion, she hears
someone say,“The police officer was killed by the robber.” Although for the native speaker it …

In this article I review processing instruction (PI), first introduced in VanPatten and Cadierno
(1993). I outline a model of input processing, then describe the nature of PI itself, and follow …