In this volume, leading scholars discuss the optimal types, amounts, and schedules of practice for specific language structures and skills, as well as for various types of learners and learning contexts, to facilitate second language development.
Yuichi Suzuki is Associate Professor in 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
Index