In 1967,more than fifty years ago,Corder introduced the concept of“input”in the second language acquisition(SLA)research field.In 1985,Krashen introduced the concept of“comprehensible input hypothesis.”In 1990,Sch...
Schmidt’s "noticing hypothesis" and Vygotsky’s "sociocultural theory" are crucial for Second Language Acquisition(SLA).Language teachers and learners may benefit a lot if they have insights into these two theories.I...
"Noticing"is emphasized for its great influence on second language learning. Based on the previous related studies,this paper attempts to apply noticing theory to English writing teaching and learning in China by mean...
This study investigates the effects of exposure frequency and contextual richness in reading on the acquisition of different aspects of vocabulary knowledge. An intact class of 35 second- year English majors read an a...
Swain's(1985) "Output Hypothesis"maintains that output performsthree functions,namely,the"noticing/triggering function",the"hypothesis-testing"function,and the " metalinguistic" function.Based on the " Noticing Hypoth...
The aim of this paper is to enhance our understanding of the importance of noticing in Second Language Acquisition(SLA)from cognitive perspective.This paper mainly includes two parts:a)to consider the theoretical cons...
The discussion in the literature on the question of how L2 grammatical knowledge is acquired has been influenced by the issue of noticing and attention. This article gives an overview of the important role of noticing...
The paper reports the results of a field study which was carried out at the Language Centre of the University of Naples and originated in the observation that learning the Italian language was not perceived by ab init...
This paper investigates the extent of idiom identification success achieved by Greek EFL (English as a foreign language) high school students while reading a text in EFL. L2 (second language) idiom identification ...
Apparent discrepancy exists between Schmidt's Noticing Hypothesis and Krashen's Input Hypothesis. Whilst Krashen highlights the importance of comprehensible input and asserts that language is acquired unconciously, th...