From the Publisher
By applying a research design from experimental psychology to natural language data, Robinson's important study sheds light on central theoretical issues concerning the implicit, explicit, incidental, and intentional learning of second and foreign languages. This book will be read with equal profit by those in applied linguistics and general learning theory. Professor Richard Schmidt University of Hawai'i at Manoa
This book brings together views from cognitive psychology and SLA theory on the implicit acquisition of grammar rules. The empirical part of this study is the first attempt, to my knowledge, to put claims from two prominent figures in these two disciplines (Reber and Krashen respectively) to the test in a single design. Professor Jan H. Hulstijn Free University, Amsterdam
