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The role of (un)awareness in SLA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2017

Ronald P. Leow  and
Lucia Donatelli
Ronald P. Leow
Affiliation:
Georgetown Universityleowr@georgetown.edu
Lucia Donatelli
Affiliation:
Georgetown Universityled66@georgetown.edu
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The construct ‘awareness’ is undoubtedly one of the more difficult constructs to operationalize and measure in both second language acquisition (SLA) and non-SLA fields of research. Indeed, the multi-faceted nature of awareness is clearly exemplified in concepts that include perception, detection, and noticing, and also in type of learning or learning conditions (implicit, explicit, incidental, subliminal), type of consciousness (autonoetic, noetic, anoetic), and type of awareness (language, phenomenal, meta-cognitive, situational). Given this broad perspective, this article provides, from a psycholinguistic perspective, a timeline on the research that addresses the role of awareness or lack thereof in second/foreign language (L2) learning.

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Research Timeline
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Language Teaching , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 189 - 211
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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