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Introduction The essential claim of this chapter is that the concept of attention is necessary in order to understand virtually every aspect of second language acquisition (SLA), including the development of interlanguages (ILs) over time, variation within IL at particular points in time, the development of L2 influency, the role of individual differences such as motivation, aptitude and learning strategies in L2 learning, and the ways in which interaction, negotiation for meaning, and all forms of instruction contribute to language learning. The theoretical issues dealt with in this chapter are organized around the basic assumptions, definitions, and metaphors concerning attention in psychology and include the idea of attention as a limited capacity, the notion of selective attention, and the role of attention in action control, access to awareness, and learning. It turns out that, like most psychological concepts initially based on common experience, attention is not a unitary phenomenon, but refers to a variety of mechanisms. These include alertness, orientation, preconscious registration (detection without awareness), selection (detection with awareness within selective attention), facilitation, and inhibition. This does not diminish the centrality of attention, in its several manifestations, for learning. Although recent evidence, discussed towards the end of this chapter, indicates the possibility of some unattended learning, this appears limited in scope and relevance for SLA. There is no doubt that attended learning is far superior, and for all practical purposes, attention is necessary for all aspects of L2 learning.
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“Theoretical arguments can also be made for implicit and explicit feedback; implicit feedback caters to implicit learning whereas explicit feedback is more likely to result in the conscious attention to form that Schmidt (2001) saw as important for acquisition and explicit learning.”
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“Therefore, in line with Schmidt's (2001) awareness hypothesis, motivation facilitates deeper processing of vocabulary learning at the cognitive level.”
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“Indeed, Schmidt's noticing hypothesis (1990,1995,2001) has played an integral role in the interaction approach, with the claim that L2 learning does not occur without awareness.”
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BackgroundINPUT, INTAKE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
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“…point, he seemed to say that the NH requires only “that learners become aware of sounds, words (recognizable sequences of sounds associated with meaning) and sequences of words,” grammar being a matter of implicit versus explicit learning rather than attention or noticing (Schmidt, 2001 , p. 31).”
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“Thus, before we can assess the infl uence of attention and processing on L2 learning, we need to ascertain that learners actually attend to and notice (Schmidt, 1990 , 1995 , 2001 ) those elements in the language input that will help them to acquire the target form.”
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BackgroundTASK TYPE AND REACTIVITY OF VERBAL REPORTS IN SLA: A First Look at a L2 Task Other Than Reading
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MethodInfluentialTRIANGULATING MEASURES OF AWARENESS
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“Although it is accepted that attention and awareness play important roles in learning (see Leow & Bowles, 2005 ; Schmidt, 2001 , for reviews), the early notion that low levels of awareness of linguistic phenomena are necessary for their acquisition (e.g., Schmidt, 1990 ) has recently been…”
BackgroundTask Motivation in Process: A Complex Systems Perspective
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“According to the IH (Long, 1981 , 1996 ), conversational interaction facilitates language acquisition by triggering useful cognitive processes for L2 learning, such as noticing (Schmidt, 2001 ).”
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“The design of the System conforms to the notions of frequent comprehensible input (Krashen, 1985) and noticing (Schmidt, 1990, 2001) in second language acquisition theories, and ease of use for technology-supported learning (Davis, 1989).”
CLIL: SOME THOUGHTS ON ITS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PRINCIPLES
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HOW INVOLVED ARE AMERICAN L2 LEARNERS OF SPANISH IN LEXICAL INPUT PROCESSING TASKS DURING READING?
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“…& Tulving, 1975 ), or if the general context is easily understood, then new words may be processed more superfi cially and may be less likely to be retrieved from memory (e.g., Ellis, 1994 , 2001 ; Gass, 1999 ; Hulstijn, 2001 , 2003 ; Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001 ; Robinson, 2003 ; Schmidt, 2001 ).”
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“Some of the theoretical models that underlie the WhatsApp research are the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky, 1978), repair moves or negotiation for meaning (Smith, 2003), noticing hypothesis (Schmidt, 2001), and collaborative learning.”
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An eye-tracking study of learned attention in second language acquisition
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“…theories that hold initial encoding is enhanced by preparatory attention and voluntary orienting (Cowan, 1997; N. C. Ellis, 2005; LaBerge, 1995; Schmidt, 2001); and once a construction has been seeded in this way, with the form-meaning conjunction consolidated as an explicit memory, thereafter…”
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“The PPP approach may effectively direct learners’ attention because “people learn about the things that they attend to and do not learnmuch about the things they do not attend to” (Schmidt, 2001, p. 30).”
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“Furthermore, the coding of noticing data needs to be carefully considered and decisions as to the resulting coarse (Swain & Lapkin, 1995) or finely grained (Schmidt, 1995, 2001) coding system need to be made.”
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“…on the length of fixation of words that are fixated because fixations provide positive evidence of focal attention and, potentially, noticing in the technical sense of Schmidt (2001) (for further discussion of peripheral, selective, and focal attention in eye-tracking research, see Godfroid, 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmidt, R.
- Corresponding author
- Schmidt, Richard
- ORCID
- Schmidt, Richard
- Venue
- Cognition and Second Language Instruction
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2001-11-29
- Pages
- 3-32
- OpenAlex
- W1573000476
- Cited by
- 1,322
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 34.14
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Keywords
- attention, second language acquisition, interlanguage development, selective attention, limited capacity, alertness, orientation, facilitation, inhibition, individual differences in language learning, motivation, aptitude, learning strategies, interaction in language learning, negotiation of meaning
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