Attention and Learning

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2010). The bounds of adult language acquisition: Blocking and learned attention. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32 (4), 553-580. download

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2010). Learned Attention Effects in L2 Temporal Reference: The First Hour and the Next Eight Semesters. Language Learning, 60: Supplement 2, 85-108. download

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2011). Learned attention in adult language acquisition: A replication and generalization study and meta-analysis. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 33 (4), 589-624. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Selective Attention and Transfer Phenomena in L2 Acquisition: Contingency, Cue Competition, Salience, Interference, Overshadowing, Blocking, and Perceptual Learning.  Applied Linguistics, 27 (2), 164-194. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Language acquisition as rational contingency learning.  Applied Linguistics. 27 (1), 1-24. download

Ellis, N. C. (2012). Learned attention and blocking. In P. Robinson (Ed.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of SLA (pp. 370-372). New York: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). Blocking and Learned Attention in Language Acquisition. In CogSci 2007, Proceedings of  the Twenty Ninth Cognitive Science Conference. Nashville, Tennesse, August  1-4, 2007. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). Usage-based and Form-focused Language Acquisition: The Associative Learning of Constructions, Learned-attention, and the Limited L2 Endstate. Chapter 16 in P. Robinson and N. Ellis (Eds.),  Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. London: Routledge download

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience in Usage-based SLA. In Gass, S., Spinner, P., & Behney, J. (Eds.), Saliency in Second Language Acquisition. NY: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C., Hafeez, K., Martin, K. I., Chen, L., Boland, J., & Sagarra, N. (2014). An eye-tracking study of learned attention in Second Language Acquisition. Applied Psycholinguistics, 35 (3), 547-579. download

Cintrón-Valentín, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2016). Salience in Second Language Acquisition: Physical form, learner attention, and instructional focus. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1284. Doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01284. Language Sciences, Special Topic: Perceptual linguistic salience: modeling causes and consequences. Link to Online Article

Cintrón-Valentín, M. & & Ellis, N. C. (2015). Exploring the Interface: Explicit Focus-on-Form Instruction and Learned Attentional Biases in L2 Latin. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37, 197-235. download 

Ellis, N. C. (2005). At the interface: Dynamic interactions of explicit and implicit language knowledge. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 305-352. download

Sagarra, N., & Ellis, N. C. (2013). From seeing adverbs to seeing morphology. Language experience and adult acquisition of L2 tense. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35, 261-290. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). Implicit and explicit knowledge about language. In J. Cenoz & N. H. Hornberger (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Second Edition, Volume 6: Knowledge about Language (pp. 119-132). Springer. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). The Weak-Interface, Consciousness, and Form-focussed instruction: Mind the Doors. In S. Fotos & H. Nassaji (Eds.), Form Focused Instruction and Teacher Education: Studies in Honour of Rod Ellis, pp. 17-33, Oxford: Oxford University Press. download