The term multicompetence describes “the compound state of a mind with two
grammars”(Cook, 1991a, p. 112). This paper reviews evidence addressing two questions: 1 …

The literature on crosslinguistic influence (Sharwood Smith and Kellerman 1986) or transfer,
as it has been traditionally called, is by now quite extensive, as befits a topic which has been …

This chapter examines individual differences in second language (L2) proficiency among
adult learners. Although previous psychometric studies have identified the learner's …

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 …

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the
application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no …

In this second edition of the best-selling Second Language Research, Alison Mackey and
Sue Gass continue to guide students step-by-step through conducting the second language …

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

This paper provides an overview of sequencing in SLA. It contends that much of language
acquisition is in fact sequence learning (for vocabulary, the phonological units of language …

This chapter presents an extended formulation of the Competition Model. The extended
model is designed to account for a large range of phenomena in first and second language …