Methodological considerations in studying awareness during learning. Part 2: Second Language Acquisition

• Authors: Daisuke Nakamura
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper considers methodological issues of awareness during adult second language acquisition (SLA). Specifically, the paper deals with (a) the issue of instructional orientations, (b) the issue of biases in knowledge measurement, and (c) the issue of reactivity in the online think-aloud protocol. Detailed reviews of prominent SLA research that has investigated the possibility of implicit SLA reveal (1) that the instruction on implicit learning does not guarantee that learners engage in the implicit learning mode, (2) that the majority of SLA research has employed only tests of “explicit learning” such as untimed grammaticality judgment, and (3) that there is some evidence that the online think-aloud protocol causes negative reactivity particularly when it is metalinguistic in nature.

Keywords

EN

awareness; retrospective verbal report; think-aloud protocol; second language acquisition

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 337-353

Contributors

author

Daisuke Nakamura

• Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. JAPAN150-8366