Instructed Second Language Acquisition

About the Journal

Instructed Second Language Acquisition, is a forum for reporting and for critical discussion of language research and practice across a wide range of languages and international contexts. It welcomes quantitative and qualitative research to address the role of external manipulation (e.g., instruction, learner self-directed learning, input manipulation) on second language development.

Announcements

Call for Papers – Vol. 6. N. 2 (November 2022) - Special Issue on Processability approaches to second language instruction

2021-02-09

Guest Editors: Bruno Di Biase, Satomi Kawaguchi, Yumiko Yamaguchi

Instructed Second Language Acquisition invites papers that seek to address the relationship between second language instruction inspired by Processability Theory and second language learning.

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Call for Papers – Vol. 6. N. 1 (May 2022)

2021-01-10

Current Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2020): Special issue: Processing instruction: new methods and research trends

Published: 2020-10-16

Editorial

Editorial

Alessandro Benati, Elena Nuzzo

109–110
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Articles

Online methods and tasks in research measuring the effects of processing instruction

Alessandro Benati

111–123
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Prior knowledge and other individual differences in the development of accuracy over the time-course of a pre-test/treatment/post-test study of instructed second language acquisition

James F. Lee, Stephen Doherty

124–157
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An eye-tracking study on the effects of structured input and traditional instruction on the acquisition of English passive forms

Alessandro Benati

158–179
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Processing instruction effects regardless of input modality and developmental processing constraints? A school lab classroom study on the morphosyntactic acquisition of L2-English

Tanja Angelovska, Dietmar Roehm

180–202
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A self-paced reading study of language processing and retention comparing guided induction and deductive instruction efficiency and depth of processing in computer-assisted learning

Paul A. Malovrh, James F. Lee, Stephen Doherty, Alecia Nichols

203–234
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A self-paced-reading study on the effects of structured input and textual enhancement on the acquisition of the Italian subjunctive of doubt

Gaia Chiuchiù, Alessandro Benati

235–257
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Reviews

Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction by B. VanPatten, M. Smith and A. Benati (2020)

John W. Schwieter

258–262
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