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This volume addresses theoretical and research domains related to questions of how forms-meaning connections are initiated, processed, and stored, and what internal and external factors may affect these mappings.

A guide in the second language field that deals with the question of how to produce and use questionnaires as reliable and valid research instruments. It offers an overview of the theory of questionnaire design, administration, and processing, made accessible by real-life second language research applications.

Presents an introduction to the use of auditory, semantic, and syntactic priming methods for second language (L2) processing and acquisition research. This title provides a guidance for the use, design, and implementation of priming tasks and an overview of how to analyze and report priming research.

Researchers and educators routinely call for longitudinal research on language learning and teaching. This volume explores the connection between longitudinal study and advanced language capacities. It also explores what it would take to design systematic research programs for the longitudinal investigation of advanced L2 capacities.

Explores learning second languages through a study of seven adults learning Japanese in a classroom setting. The research is grounded in a socio-cognitive framework based on Vygotsky's theory, analyzing both interactions between learners in the classroom and individual learners' private speech.

Dealing with formal features in Second Language Acquisition is defined within generative grammatical theory, such as the Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program. This volume addresses the role of features in the versions of generative grammar.

This volume documents and describes the growth of task-based research in language acquisition. It presents the origins, principles and key distinctions of referential communication research in first and second language studies, plus analyses and illustrations of different types of materials.

Even though second-language learners may master the grammar and vocabulary of the new languages, they almost never achieve a native phonology (accent). This work covers the growing scholarship in this area, examining the issues in the field of second language acquisition and applied linguistics.

Aims to answer the questions about the validity and uses of think-alouds, verbal reports completed by research participants while they perform a task. This book offers an overview of how think-alouds have been used in language research, and presents a meta-analysis of findings from studies involving verbal tasks and think-alouds.