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Attention, Awareness, and Foreign Language Behavior
Author(s) -
Leow Ronald P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/0023-8333.00017
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , foreign language , metalinguistics , second language acquisition , second language , relation (database) , think aloud protocol , task analysis , linguistics , teaching method , mathematics education , vocabulary development , computer science , philosophy , management , usability , database , human–computer interaction , economics
This study qualitatively and quantitatively addressed the role of awareness in relation to Schmidt's noticing hypothesis in second language acquisition (1990, 1993, 1994, 1995). It analyzed both the think‐aloud protocols produced by 28 beginning adult L2 learners of Spanish (selected carefully from a pool of 85 people on the basis of relevant criteria) completing a problem‐solving task and their immediate performances on 2 post‐exposure assessment tasks, a recognition and written production task. The qualitative and quantitative analyses of learners' performances suggest the following conclusions: (a) Different levels of awareness lead to differences in processing, (b) more awareness contributes to more recognition and accurate written production of noticed forms, and (c) the findings provide empirical support for the facilitative effects of awareness on foreign language behavior.