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.
Table 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).
Review :
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
