Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition

1. Introduction; 2. Cognitive individual differences in second language learning and processing (by Granena, Gisela); 3. Part 1. Theoretical and methodological issues; 4. Foreign language aptitude, acquisitional sequences, and psycholinguistic processes (by Skehan, Peter); 5. Miniature natural language learning in L2 acquisition research (by Kempe, Vera); 6. Working memory, language processing, and implications of malleability for second language acquisition (by Tsai, Nancy); 7. Methodological implications of working memory tasks for L2 processing research (by Leeser, Michael J.); 8. Analyzing individual differences in second language research: The benefits of mixed effects models (by Linck, Jared A.); 9. Part 2. Empirical studies; 10. Music, song and speech: A closer look at the interfaces between musicality, singing and individual differences in phonetic language aptitude (by Christiner, Markus); 11. An empirical study of working memory, personality, and second language construction learning (by Jackson, Daniel O.); 12. Elicited imitation as a measure of implicit L2 knowledge: The role of working memory and short-term memory capacity (by Granena, Gisela); 13. Working memory and L2 English speakers' primed and subsequent production of passives (by McDonough, Kim); 14. Interrelationships among L2 linguistic knowledge, working memory functions, and L2 reading (by Cecen, Sevdeger); 15. Executive control and phonological processing in language acquisition: The role of early bilingual experience in learning an additional language (by Darcy, Isabelle); 16. Corrective feedback and working memory capacity: A replication (by Goo, Jaemyung); 17. The interaction between feedback exposure condition and phonetic coding ability (by Yilmaz, Yucel); 18. The role of explicit language aptitude in implicit, explicit, and mixed feedback conditions (by Yilmaz, Yucel); 19. Index