Edited by Junya Fukuta, John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi
This edited volume offers a systematic and critical examination of how theories in second language acquisition have been formulated, justified, and sustained, with particular attention to their status as explanatory accounts. Rather than introducing theories in isolation, the chapters revisit… read more
This paper examines critically the validity of widely cited ‘hypotheses’ from the discipline of second language acquisition (SLA) research, focusing on whether they meet the criteria to be considered hypotheses that can anchor the inquiries, investigations, and findings in a discipline that… read more
One of the primary objectives of second language (L2) research, when approached as a branch of cognitive science, is to develop theories of human capacities that explain the acquisition of the L2 cognitive system and its underlying processing mechanisms. This chapter asks what it means to study… read more
This paper critically examines the application of dual-system models in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) by drawing parallels with the dual-process framework from cognitive psychology. While the implicit/explicit knowledge distinction has played a key role in SLA theory and practice, recent… read more
This article addresses the pitfalls of performance analysis in investigating cognitive processing during second language (L2) learning. The problems that we discuss in this paper are twofold: (1) Assuming psychological variables to be ontological entities without meeting the criteria for… read more
