"This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former doctoral students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a tribute to his career and contribution of bringing processing issues to the center stage of research in second language acquisition (SLA) and instructed SLA. The research and theorizing presented in this volume are the most recent in the field and represent innovations in approaches to L2 processing research, including the use of online methodologies (self-paced reading and eye tracking) in the experimental papers. In addition, the editors are recognized authors and researchers who have published on sentence processing, input processing, and processing instruction, and all three editors are either on editorial boards or are associate editors of major L2 journals"--.

• Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Input processing in second language acquisition: The pioneering work of bill VanPatten
  • Introduction
  • Over three decades of influential research
    • Input processing
    • Instruction targeting processes – Not products or “rules”
    • Other areas of influence
  • The present volume
    • Part I. Research on sentence processing
    • Part II. Research on input processing
    • Part III. Research on processing instruction
  • Current and future directions in PI research
  • References
• Part I. Research on sentence processing
• Chapter 2. The processing of case in intermediate L2 Spanish
  • Introduction
  • Differential object marking in Spanish
  • The non-native processing of Spanish case
  • Experiment 1
    • Participants
    • Material
    • Procedure
    • Results
    • Interim discussion
  • Experiment 2
    • Participants
    • Materials
    • Procedure
    • Results
    • Interim discussion
  • General discussion
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 3. The processing of subject shifts in L2 Spanish: An examination of L2 learners’ use of inflectional morphology and reliance on overt subject pronouns
  • Introduction
  • Background and motivation
    • Subject shifts in Spanish
    • Processing strategies in L2 acquisition
    • Research questions
  • Method and procedure
    • Participants
    • Materials
    • Procedure
    • Scoring and analysis
    • Coding scheme for linear mixed models
  • Results
    • Native speakers
    • Non-native speakers
    • Summary of results
  • Discussion
  • Limitations and future research
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A. Experimental stimuli
• Chapter 4. When more is better: Higher L1/L2 similarity, L2 proficiency, and working memory facilitate L2 morphosyntactic processing
  • Introduction
  • Background
    • L1 transfer and L2 processing of subject-verb number agreement
    • Proficiency level and L2 processing of subject-verb number agreement
    • Working memory and L2 processing of subject-verb number agreement
  • The current study
  • Experiment
    • Participants
    • Materials and procedure
    • Scoring
  • Results
    • Gaze duration
    • Total time
    • First pass fixation count
    • Total fixation count
    • Summary of reading time data
    • Picture interpretation and verb bias
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Appendix
• Part II. Research and perspectives on VanPatten’s model of input processing
• Chapter 5. VanPatten (1990)’s long and winding story and the nature of replication studies
  • Introduction
  • The initial study
  • The replication agenda and the replication crisis in SLA
    • The replication agenda: Replication round 1
    • The replication agenda: Replication round 2
  • The current study
  • Methodology
    • Participants
    • Materials
    • Procedure
  • Analysis and results
    • Coding
    • Quantitative analyses
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
    • The Aztecs, translation for present study
• Chapter 6. Contextual effects in processing OVS constructions in Spanish: A partial replication of VanPatten and Houston (1998) and Malovrh (2006)
  • Introduction
  • Background: Contextual effects on sentence processing
  • The current study
    • Method
  • Results
  • Discussion and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 7. Multilevel input processing: Emerging developments and future challenges
  • Introduction
  • Multilevel input processing: An introduction
  • Sentence-level input processing
    • Input as the necessary ingredient
    • Input processing principles
    • Sentence-level input processing and other levels of input processing: Crosstalk
  • Lexical input processing
    • The scope of research on lexical input processing
    • Contexts of vocabulary learning
    • Key developments in research on lexical input processing
    • Lexical input processing and other levels of input processing: Crosstalk
  • State of the science for multilevel input processing: Where are we now?
  • Future research on multilevel input processing: Where might we go from here?
    • Within-level research
    • Between-level research
    • Global-level research
    • Combining different areas of language science
  • Summary and conclusion
  • References
• Part III. Research and perspectives on processing instruction
• Chapter 8. Trials-to-criterion as a methodological option to measure language processing in processing instruction
  • Trials-to-criterion: Introduction and rationale
  • Fernández (2008)
  • Overview of studies using trials-to-criterion since Fernández (2008)
    • The effects of EI on criterion rate
    • Discussion of findings from trials-to-criterion research
  • Trials-to-criterion: Implementation
    • Types of SI activities
    • Criterion
    • Total number of trials available for reaching criterion
    • Explicit information
  • Future directions
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 9. PI and the French causative and passive constructions: Examining transfer-of-training effects using eye tracking
  • Introduction
  • Background and motivation
    • PI: Secondary and cumulative effects
    • Transfer-of-training effects with and without EI
  • The present study
    • Primary and secondary structures
    • Wong and Ito (2018)
  • Experiment 1
    • Methods and procedures
    • Analyses and results
  • Experiment 2
    • Method
    • Participants
    • Materials
    • Procedure
    • Analyses and results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 10. Why does processing instruction work?: The role of PI within a framework of language and second language development
  • “What’s in the Mind”: The nature of language and the architecture of the language faculty
    • The complexity of language
    • The lexicon, words, and “rules”
  • “How it gets there”: Processing considerations
    • Input processing
  • Processing instruction
    • Purpose and characteristics of PI
  • Research on processing instruction
    • VanPatten and Cadierno (1993)
    • Fernández (2008)
    • Main findings of PI research
    • Limitations and future directions of PI
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Conclusion
• Chapter 11. Online methods in research on input processing and processing instruction
  • Introduction
  • Online measures of sentence comprehension
    • Spoken language comprehension
    • Written language comprehension
  • Online methods and VanPatten’s IP model
    • The primacy of content words principle
    • The lexical preference principle
    • The preference for nonredundancy principle
    • The meaning-before-nonmeaning principle
    • The first noun principle
    • The sentence location principle
  • Current directions in the online study of IP and PI
    • Using online measures during PI/SI treatments
    • Using online measures in pre- and post-test assessments
  • Future directions in the online study of IP and PI
    • PI and predictive processing
    • PI and morphological decomposition
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Index