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Mackey, Alison; Adams, Rebecca; Stafford, Catherine; Winke, Paula – Language Learning, 2010
This study examines the relationship between learners' production of modified output and their working memory (WM) capacity. The task-based interactions of 42 college-level, native English-speaking learners of Spanish as a foreign language were examined. A relationship was found between learners' WM test scores and their tendency to modify output.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Spanish, Second Language Learning, College Students
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Adams, Rebecca – Language Teaching Research, 2003
Extends a study on the developmental effects of learners noticing differences between their own and native speaker output. Spanish learners were assigned to three groups: task repetition, noticing, and noticing + simulated recall. Learners noticed differences between their own essays and reformulated writing and that there were quantitative…
Descriptors: Essays, Language Research, Native Speakers, Recall (Psychology)