Practice and automatization in second language research : perspectives from skill acquisition theory and cognitive psychology / edited by Yuichi Suzuki.

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English
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  • New York, NY : Routledge, [2024]
  • ©2024
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Second Language Acquisition Research Series [More in this series]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: Practice and Automatization in a Second Language
  • Introduction
  • Updating "Practice" and "Automatization"
  • On Practice: Cognitive/Educational Psychology and SLA
  • On Automatization and Automaticity
  • Principles of Practice for L2 Teaching and Learning
  • Deliberate Practice
  • Systematic Practice
  • Practice Distribution
  • Practice Sequence/Variability
  • Timing of Support
  • Transfer-Appropriate Processing
  • Feedback
  • Desirable Difficulty
  • Contributions to This Volume: Theory, Praxis, and Methods
  • References
  • Part I Foundations
  • 2 Optimizing Input and Intake Processing: A Role for Practice and Explicit Learning
  • Practice for Input and Intake Processing and Empirical Evidence
  • Isolated Practice: Deliberate Memorization
  • Guided Practice: The Roles of Explicit Information and Declarative Knowledge
  • Contextualized Practice: Reconstruction, Imitation, Feedback, and Monitoring
  • Some Considerations for Explicit Learning
  • Principles of Effective Practice
  • Support Timing
  • Feedback Timing
  • Insights Into Automatization: The Role of Explicit Instruction
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 3 Skill Learning Theories and Language Teaching: Different Strokes for Different Folks
  • Communicative Practice and Empirical Evidence
  • Declarative and Procedural Memory Systems
  • Different Types of Skills
  • The Goal of Practice and Its Measurement
  • The Nature of Practice
  • Deliberate, Systematic, and Challenging Practice
  • Feedback and Output Practice
  • Variability of Practice.
  • Insights Into Automatization: The Role of Declarative Knowledge
  • Part II Teaching Approaches and Contexts
  • 4 Situating Practice in a Limited-Exposure, Foreign Languages School Curriculum
  • Part 1: Context
  • Background to the Real-World Challenge: Embedding a Practice-Based Pedagogy and Curriculum
  • Part 2: Principles of Effective Practice
  • Deliberate Practice (And Identifying the Content)
  • Transfer-Appropriate
  • Challenging (Desirable Difficulty)
  • Insights Into Automatisation: Developing and Assessing Different Types of Knowledge
  • Concluding Remarks: Ways Forward for Research
  • 5 Supporting Individualized Practice Through Intelligent CALL
  • Linking ICALL to SLA and the Principles of Effective L2 Practice
  • Components of ICALL
  • Relating ICALL to SLA Concepts
  • Principles of Effective L2 Practice
  • Input Enrichment: Facilitating Encounters With Pedagogically Targeted Language Means
  • Relating the Approach to the Principles of Effective L2 Practice
  • Input Enrichment: Providing Developmentally Proximal Input
  • Relating the Approach to Principles of Effective L2 Practice
  • Input Enhancement: Fostering Noticing of Pedagogical Target Forms
  • Feedback: Scaffolding Learners Completing a Range of Closed to Open Activities
  • Insights Into Automatization: ICALL's Limitations and a Look Ahead
  • 6 Practice in Task-Based Language Teaching
  • TBLT Versus TSLT
  • Systematic and Transfer-Appropriate Practice
  • Challenging Practice
  • Feedback On Task Performances
  • Deliberate Practice.
  • Insights Into Automatization: An Incidental Learning Perspective
  • Conclusions
  • 7 Practice in Study Abroad Contexts
  • L2 Development and Study Abroad
  • Insights Into Automatization: The Role of Social Networks
  • Part III Methodological Synthesis
  • 8 A Synthesis of L2 Practice Research: What Is "Practice" and How Has It Been Investigated?
  • Defining L2 Practice
  • Finding What Constitutes Optimal L2 Practice in Contexts
  • Research Questions
  • Methodological Synthesis
  • Study Identification
  • Coding
  • Analysis
  • Results and Discussion
  • Substantive and Methodological Characteristics
  • What Types of Samples Are Found?
  • What Types of Research Designs and Contexts Were Employed?
  • What Types of Practice Were Investigated?
  • What Types of Measures Were Used During and After Practice?
  • Research Paradigms in L2 Practice Research
  • Practical Research Guide
  • Shaping the Research Agenda for Future L2 Practice Research
  • Supplementary Materials
  • 9 Measuring Automaticity in Second Language Comprehension: A Methodological Synthesis of Experimental Tasks Over Three Decades (1990-2021)
  • L2 Comprehension Model: Processes, Knowledge, and Automaticity
  • Tasks and Measures of Automaticity of Lexical and Grammatical Processing
  • Literature Search and Eligibility Criteria
  • Findings and Discussion From the Methodological Synthesis
  • Research Domain On Automatization and Automaticity (RQ1)
  • Tasks for Measuring Automaticity of Lexical and Grammatical Processing (RQ2a)
  • Dependent Measures (RQ2b)
  • Experiment Software (RQ2c)
  • Methodological Guidelines
  • Conclusion.
  • Exercises On Developing Experimental Tasks
  • 10 Measuring Speaking and Writing Fluency: A Methodological Synthesis Focusing On Automaticity
  • Models of L2 Speaking and Writing
  • Literature Search
  • Eligibility Criteria
  • Findings and Discussion From the Methodological Synthesis On Utterance Fluency
  • RQ1: Speech Data Collection
  • Task Characteristics
  • Task Conditions
  • RQ2: Representative Measurements of Automatisation in L2 Speaking
  • RQ3: Analysis Tools and Software
  • Findings and Discussion From the Methodological Synthesis On Writing Fluency
  • RQ1: Writing Data Collection
  • RQ2: Representative Measurements of Automatisation in L2 Writing
  • Utterance Fluency
  • Exemplary Study (Speaking)
  • Writing Fluency
  • Exemplary Study (Writing)
  • Exercises On Measurement Development
  • Speech Data Analysis
  • Writing Data Analysis
  • 11 Conclusion: Future Directions of Practice and Automatization Research
  • Explaining Mechanisms of Automatization
  • Reappraisal of "Repetition"
  • Applicability of Skill Acquisition Theory: Several Future Venues
  • Outstanding Issues and Future Directions
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-00-341464-8
  • 1-003-41464-8
  • 1-000-91870-X
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