Michael J. Leeser

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael J. Leeser is involved.

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Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten

Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong

This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 62] 2021. viii, 359 pp.

Leeser, Michael J. 2021 Chapter 10. Why does processing instruction work? The role of PI within a framework of language and second language development Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten, Leeser, Michael J., Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong (eds.), pp. 295–324 | Chapter

Research on processing instruction (PI) has shown that PI is an effective instructional intervention for learners of various languages and contexts. This chapter addresses a basic question: Why does PI work? In the first section, I provide an overview of the language faculty and discuss how PI… read more

Leeser, Michael J., Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong 2021 Chapter 1. Input processing in second language acquisition: The pioneering work of Bill VanPatten Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten, Leeser, Michael J., Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Chapter

In this chapter, we highlight Bill VanPatten’s numerous contributions to the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and instructed second language acquisition (ISLA), and to the language teaching profession. We begin with an overview of his major professional achievements, followed by an… read more

Leeser, Michael J. and Gretchen L. Sunderman 2016 Methodological implications of working memory tasks for L2 processing research Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition, Granena, Gisela, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz (eds.), pp. 89–104 | Chapter

A growing body of research within cognitive perspectives of second language acquisition (SLA) has investigated how individual differences in working memory (WM) capacity may impact second language (L2) processes. Many of these studies have employed versions of complex span measures, such as the… read more

VanPatten, Bill, Gregory D. Keating and Michael J. Leeser 2012  Missing verbal inflections as a representational problem: Evidence from self-paced reading Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:2, pp. 109–140 | Editorial

A continuing concern in second language acquisition (SLA) research is whether problems with inflectional morphology are representational or related somehow to performance. In this study, we examine 25 non-advanced learners of L2 Spanish and compare them with 18 native Spanish speakers on three… read more

Leeser, Michael J., Anel Brandl and Christine Weissglass 2011 Chapter 8. Task effects in second language sentence processing research Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research: Insights from Psycholinguistics, Trofimovich, Pavel and Kim McDonough (eds.), pp. 179–198 | Article

This chapter explores the ways in which secondary tasks utilized in on-line sentence processing experiments can influence second language (L2) learners’ processing behavior. After a brief introduction to sentence processing and the self-paced reading methodology, we present data from a self-paced… read more