Yuichi Suzuki is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies at Kanagawa University, Japan.

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction: Practice and Automatization in a Second Language

Yuichi Suzuki

PART I Foundations

Chapter 2 Explicit learning at the initial stages of SLA: Optimizing input and intake processing

Yuichi Suzuki, Tatsuya Nakata, and John Rogers

Chapter 3 Skill learning theories and language teaching: Different strokes for different folks

Masatoshi Sato

PART II Teaching Approaches and Contexts

Chapter 4 Situating practice in a limited-exposure, foreign languages school curriculum Emma Marsden and Rachel Hawkes

Chapter 5 Supporting individualized practice through Intelligent CALL

Simon Ruiz, Patrick Rebuschat, and Detmar Meurers

Chapter 6 Integrating systematic practice into task-based language teaching

Craig Lambert

Chapter 7 Practice in study abroad contexts

Kevin McManus

PART III Methodological Synthesis

Chapter 8 A synthesis of L2 practice research: What is "practice" and how has it been investigated?

Ryo Maie and Aline Godfroid

Chapter 9 Measuring automaticity in a second language: A methodological synthesis of experimental tasks over three decades (1990-2021)

Yuichi Suzuki and Irina Elgort

Chapter 10 Measuring speaking and writing fluency: A methodological synthesis focusing on automaticity

Shungo Suzuki and Andrea Révész

Chapter 11 Conclusion: Future directions of practice and automatization research

Yuichi Suzuki

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