The study of how learners acquire a second language (SLA) has helped to shape thinking
about how to teach the grammar of a second language. There remain, however, a number of …

A problem facing investigations of implicit and explicit learning is the lack of valid measures
of second language implicit and explicit knowledge. This paper attempts to establish …

A number of theories of second language (L2) acquisition acknowledge a role for explicit L2
knowledge. However, the testing of these theories remains problematic because of the lack …

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 …

This classroom-based study investigated the metatalk of learners working in pairs on a text
reconstruction task. Specifically, the study investigated the learners' level of engagement …

This article re-examines the question of what makes some grammatical structures more
difficult to learn than others, arguing that this question can only be properly understood and …

This study investigates the grammatical representations of nearnatives with the aim of
providing an account of the selectiveness observed in the morphosyntactic properties that …

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an
in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA. In this volume, Roehr …

This study examined the development of integrated knowledge or automatic competence in
adult SLA. Automatic competence was operationalized in terms of the participants' sensitivity …

Existing research indicates that instructed learners' L2 proficiency and their metalinguistic
knowledge are moderately correlated. However, the operationalization of the construct of …