In this article I discuss the selection and assembly of formal features in second language
acquisition. Assembling the particular lexical items of a second language (L2) requires that …

In this article, we report the results of a self-paced reading experiment designed to
investigate the question of whether or not advanced French and German learners of English …

This article relates adults' difficulty acquiring foreign languages to the associative learning
phenomena of cue salience, cue complexity, and the blocking of later experienced cues by …

The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality Page 1 John
Benjamins Publishing Company Dalila Ayoun The Second Language Acquisition of French …

Syntactic theory has played a role in second language acquisition (SLA) research since the
early 1980s, when the principles and parameters model of generative grammar was …

Exploring the canonical topics in second language acquisition, this book introduces different
theoretical perspectives and explores the types of research carried out in the field. Individual …

This thesis reports a study of the effects on long-term proficiency of starting to learn English
in a minimal input setting (the classroom) at different ages. A total of 132 Saudi Arabian …

Despite the status of Arabic as a global language and the high demand to learn it, the field of
Arabic second language acquisition remains underinvestigated. Second language …

The study examines the acquisition of L3 French present form by advanced L2 English
learners of L1 Chinese within the framework of the Typological Primacy Model (TPM) of …

We examine whether or not L1 Spanish and L1 Japanese learners can acquire the
extended range of meanings associated with the simple present and present progressive in …