The 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.

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).

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