Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Introduction. Cognitive individual differences in second language learning and processing 1
5. Part 1. Theoretical and methodological issues
6. Foreign language aptitude, acquisitional sequences, and psycholinguistic processes 17
7. Miniature natural language learning in L2 acquisition research 41
8. Working memory, language processing, and implications of malleability for second language acquisition 69
9. Methodological implications of working memory tasks for L2 processing research 89
10. Analyzing individual differences in second language research 105
11. Part 2. Empirical studies
12. Music, song and speech 131
13. An empirical study of working memory, personality, and second language construction learning 157
14. Elicited imitation as a measure of implicit L2 knowledge 185
15. Working memory and L2 English speakers’ primed and subsequent production of passives 205
16. Interrelationships among L2 linguistic knowledge, working memory functions, and L2 reading 223
17. Executive control and phonological processing in language acquisition 249
18. Corrective feedback and working memory capacity 279
19. The interaction between feedback exposure condition and phonetic coding ability 303
20. The role of explicit language aptitude in implicit, explicit, and mixed feedback conditions 327
21. Index 351