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 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

Index