Age, Implicit Learning, & Second Language Acquisition - Professor Pauline Foster

I am so happy/grateful to Professor Pauline Foster for joining the ESRC Special SLA Lecture Series. Professor Foster gave us an online presentation titled "Implicit Learning and Morphosyntactic Attainment in a Second Language: The Interplay of Age of Onset, Context of Learning, Phonological Short-Term Memory, & Implicit Pattern Learning." She is the founder of London Second Language Acquisition Research Forum (contactuslslar...) and a recipient of the Studies in Second Language Acquisition Influential Paper Award (Cambridge University Press) ( • Pauline Foster and Pet... .
Professor Pauline Foster
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KZbin Interview @ St. Mary University: • Pauline Foster | Arts ...
SSLA award winning paper: • Pauline Foster and Pet... , www.cambridge....
***This KZbin project is supported by Economic and Social Research Council Grant (gtr.ukri.org/p...) and special thanks to my J-SLARF student collaborator, Masaru Yamamoto (lled.educ.ubc....) for editing the video so professionally!

[@KazuyaL2Lab]

Parts of Pauline Foster's project here were published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-second-language-acquisition/article/abs/knowledge-of-nativelike-selections-in-a-l2/0393B0970239C4697AB90CDF0B3CC8AA

[@chomrajpatanasorn1854]

I admit that I couldn’t really follow the results. So can we conclude that AoO is important for both immersion and classroom settings? How important is it to begin early especially in a classroom context?

[@lindabakkouche5674]

Very interesting topic! I’m looking forward to similar or different research topics in SLA!