Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Input Processing

This state-of-the-science handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of input processing in second language acquisition. The volume assesses past and current research on input processing and engages the reader in critical reflection about the current state of the field and what lies ahead for future research, theory-building, and implications for language instruction.
The handbook considers multiple theoretical perspectives, pivotal research findings, issues in research methodology, and instructional implications that underscore the centrality of input processing in second language acquisition. Whereas to date most research in this area has focused on input processing as it relates to the acquisition of morphosyntax and lexis, the present volume also attends to more recent theoretical advances regarding other linguistic subsystems, such as phonology and pragmatics, as well as processing resource allocation during multilevel input processing.
Thorough and forward-looking, this volume is an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of second language acquisition, bilingualism, applied linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and education.

List of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Ch 1 Introduction: Input Processing, Where Language Acquisition Begins
Wynne Wong & Joe Barcroft

PART I: INPUT PROCESSING: TYPES AND CONTEXTS

Ch 2 Multilevel Input Processing: The Framework and Its Future
Joe Barcroft

Ch 3 Input Processing in Spoken Versus Written Language
Ronald P. Leow & Fei Li

Ch 4 Input Processing in L1 Acquisition and Simultaneous Bilingualism
John Schwieter & Alessandro Benati

PART II: ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORIES

Ch 5 Input Processing in Generative Second Language Acquisition
Laurent Dekydtspotter

Ch 6 Input Processing and Usage-Based Approaches
Alfonso Morales-Front & Joe Barcroft

Ch 7 Input Processing in Conceptual Semantics
Susanne E. Carroll & Lindsay Hracs

PART III: ISSUES IN OTHER THEORIES AND MODELS

Ch 8 VanPatten's Theory of Input Processing in L2 Acquisition
Michael J. Leeser

Ch 9 Input Processing as an Interaction Between Internal and External Context: The Modular Cognition Framework
Michael Sharwood Smith & John Truscott

Ch 10 The Declarative/Procedural Model and Input Processing
Sarah Grey

Ch 11 The Type of Processing - Resource Allocation (TOPRA) Model
Shusaku Kida

PART IV: MECHANISMS OF INPUT PROCESSING AND THE ACQUISITION OF MORPHOSYNTAX

Ch 12 Attention to Form and Meaning: VanPatten (1990) and Beyond
Cristina Sanz

Ch 13 Lexical Preference in Input Processing
Justin P. White & Wynne Wong

Ch 14 The First-noun Principle
Russell Simonsen & Bill VanPatten

Ch 15 Roles of Interaction and Output in Input Processing
Janire Zalbidea & Paul Toth

PART V: MECHANISMS OF INPUT PROCESSING AND THE ACQUISITION OF PHONOLOGY, LEXIS, AND PRAGMATICS

Ch 16 Input Processing and the Acquisition of Phonology
Annie Tremblay

Ch 17 Input Processing and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
Susanne Rott

Ch 18 Input Processing and Intentional Vocabulary Acquisition
Akifumi Yanagisawa

Ch 19 Input Processing and the Acquisition of Pragmatics
Friederike Fichtner

PART VI: INPUT PROCESSING AND SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

Ch 20 Thirty Years of Processing Instruction and Structured Input
Wynne Wong

Ch 21 Explicit Information, Input Processing, and Second Language Acquisition
Nick Henry

Ch 22 Comprehensible Input in Language Instruction: Approaches and Techniques
Philippa Bell & Caroline Payant

Ch 23 Approaches to Vocabulary Instruction from an Input Processing Perspective
Brent Wolter

PART VII: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH ON INPUT PROCESSING

Ch 24 A Systematic Methodological Review of offline Input Processing Research
Simón Ruiz & Patrick Rebuschat

Ch 25 Research on Online Input Processing: Self-Paced Reading, Eye-tracking, ERPs, and Beyond
Jill Jegerski

Ch 26 Think-aloud protocol, Trials-to-criterion, and Triangulation Between Online and Offline Measures in IP Research
Silvia Marijuan

Epilogue: Interview with Bill VanPatten

Index

About the author

Wynne Wong is Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition at The Ohio State University, USA. She is the author of Input Enhancement: From Theory and Research to the Classroom (2005) and lead author of two French textbooks: Liaisons (2013, 2019) and Encore (2016, 2020). She is/has been on the editorial board of the journal Instructed Second Language Acquisition and on the advisory committee of The Canadian Modern Language Review.
Joe Barcroft is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition and Affiliate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. His books include Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning (2015); Input-Based Incremental Vocabulary Acquisition (2012); and the volume, co-edited with Javier Muñoz-Basols, Spanish Vocabulary Learning in Meaning-Oriented Instruction (2021).

Summary

This state-of-the-science handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of input processing in second language acquisition. The volume assesses past and current research on input processing and engages the reader in critical reflection about the current state of the field and what lies ahead for future research.

Report

This comprehensive and balanced collection of papers on learning from input processing will be welcomed by those beginning their study of input processing as well as those who are familiar with the field. The papers included tackle the major issues and do so with clarity and authority. It is especially pleasing to see that vocabulary is now getting the attention it deserves in this crucial area of second language acquisition.
Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
This impressive handbook comprehensively brings together key topics in input processing as written by renowned scholars and remarkably establishes connections with related theoretical, empirical, methodological, and pedagogical work. Thus, it offers innovative directions for understanding input processing and second/additional language acquisition more generally.
Kara Morgan-Short, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
In this cutting-edge and mesmerizingly insightful handbook, Drs. Wong and Barcroft share the writings of a generation's worth of wisdom on the brain's mechanisms in acquiring new languages. This is a volume every applied linguist should read.
Paula Winke, Michigan State University, USA
This volume is a testament to the longevity and the intellectual force that is input processing in the field of SLA. Decades in the making, yet current and cutting edge, the text's contributions and their individual contributors-led by Wynne Wong and Joe Barcroft-have simultaneously consolidated and propelled our understanding of input processing at the nexus of theory, empirical research, and practice.
Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University

Product details

• Authors: Wynne Barcroft Wong
• Assisted by: Joe Barcroft (Editor), Barcroft Joe (Editor), Wynne Wong (Editor), Wong Wynne (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9780367471439
• ISBN: 978-0-367-47143-9
• No. of pages: 402
• Series: The Routledge Handbooks in Second Language Acquisition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism