Teresa Pica

Pica, Teresa 2013 Chapter 3. From input, output and comprehension to negotiation, evidence, and attention: An overview of theory and research on learner interaction and SLA Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, García Mayo, María del Pilar, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Chapter

This chapter begins with an historical overview of theory and research on the role of learner interaction in the processes and sequences of second language acquisition (SLA). The overview highlights the foundational constructs of input, output, interaction, and comprehension, and current constructs… read more

Pica, Teresa 2012 Foreword Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts: Research and implementation, Shehadeh, Ali and Christine A. Coombe (eds.), pp. xv–xx | Miscellaneous

Pica, Teresa, Ruth Kanagy and Joseph Falodun 2009 Chapter 9. Choosing and using communication tasks for second language instruction Task-Based Language Teaching: A reader, Van den Branden, Kris, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris (eds.), pp. 171–192 | Article

Pica, Teresa 2003 Language in the twenty-first century: A newly informed perspective Language in the Twenty-First Century: Selected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University, Tonkin, Humphrey and Timothy Reagan (eds.), pp. 115–131 | Article

Pica, Teresa and Gay N. Washburn 2003 Negative Evidence in Language Classroom Activities: A Study of its Availability and Accessibility to Language Learners ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 141/142, pp. 301–344 | Article

This study sought to identify and describe how negative evidence was made available and accessible in responses to learners during two classroom activities: a teacher-led discussion, which emphasized communication of subject matter content, and a teacher-led sentence construction exercise, which… read more

Pica, Teresa 1994 The Language Learner's Environment as a Resource for Linguistic Input? A Review of Theory and Research ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 105/106, pp. 69–116 | Article

This article reviews theory and research on the second language learning environment as a source of input to learners and the contributions made by speakers in learners' environment to their input needs and requirements. Discussion centers on connections between the formal and interactional… read more

Pica, Teresa 1988 Morpheme Data Analysis in Second Language Acquisition Research: Renewing an Old Debate and Raising New Issues ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 79/80, pp. 77–112 | Article

This article will review options which confront second language acquisition researchers in their analysis of a learner’s morpheme production. It will first critically examine several different procedures which can be used to compute production accuracy, particularly when assigning values to… read more

Pica, Teresa, Catherine J. Doughty and Richard Young 1986 Making Input Comprehensible: Do Interactional Modifications Help? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 72, pp. 1–25 | Article

In view of the evidence that comprehensible input is necessary for language acquisition (Krashen 1980, 1982, Long 1981, 1983, 1985), this study compared the listening comprehension of NNSs' of English on directions to an assembly task given by a NS under two input conditions : (1) Syntactically… read more

Articles