Catherine J. Doughty is Associate Research Director for SLA at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland.

Michael H. Long is Professor of SLA and Director of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland.

List of Contributors viii Acknowledgments x I Overview 1 1 The Scope of Inquiry and Goals of SLA 3
Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long II Capacity and Representation 17 2 On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language 19Lydia White 3 The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar 43William O'Grady 4 Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure 63Nick C. Ellis 5 Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals: The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations 104Judith F. Kroll and Gretchen Sunderman 6 Near-Nativeness 130Antonella Sorace III Environments for Sla 153 7 Language Socialization in SLA 155Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and Sarah Nielsen 8 Social Context 178Jeff Siegel 9 Input and Interaction 224Susan M. Gass 10 Instructed SLA: Constraints, Compensation, and Enhancement 256Catherine J. Doughty IV Processes in Sla 311 11 Implicit and Explicit Learning 313Robert DeKeyser 12 Incidental and Intentional Learning 349Jan H. Hulstijn 13 Automaticity and Second Languages 382Norman Segalowitz 14 Variation 409Suzanne Romaine 15 Cross-Linguistic Influence 436Terence Odlin 16 Stabilization and Fossilization in Interlanguage Development 487Michael H. Long V Biological and Psychological Constraints 537 17 Maturational Constraints in SLA 539Kenneth Hyltenstam and Niclas Abrahamsson 18 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning 589Zoltán Dörnyei and Peter Skehan 19 Attention and Memory during SLA 631Peter Robinson 20 Language Processing Capacity 679Manfred Pienemann VI Research Methods 715 21 Defining and Measuring SLA 717John Norris and Lourdes Ortega 22 Data Collection in SLA Research 762Craig Chaudron VII The State of Sla 829 23 SLA Theory: Construction and Assessment 831Kevin R. Gregg 24 SLA and Cognitive Science 866
Michael H. Long and Catherine J. Doughty Index 871