Wynne Wong is Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition at The Ohio State University, USA. She is the author of Input Enhancement: From Theory and Research to the Classroom (2005) and lead author of two French textbooks: Liaisons (2013, 2019) and Encore (2016, 2020). She is/has been on the editorial board of the journal Instructed Second Language Acquisition and on the advisory committee of The Canadian Modern Language Review. Joe Barcroft is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition and Affiliate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. His books include Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning (2015); Input-Based Incremental Vocabulary Acquisition (2012); and the volume, co-edited with Javier Muñoz-Basols, Spanish Vocabulary Learning in Meaning-Oriented Instruction (2021).
This comprehensive and balanced collection of papers on learning from input processing will be welcomed by those beginning their study of input processing as well as those who are familiar with the field. The papers included tackle the major issues and do so with clarity and authority. It is especially pleasing to see that vocabulary is now getting the attention it deserves in this crucial area of second language acquisition. Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand This impressive handbook comprehensively brings together key topics in input processing as written by renowned scholars and remarkably establishes connections with related theoretical, empirical, methodological, and pedagogical work. Thus, it offers innovative directions for understanding input processing and second/additional language acquisition more generally. Kara Morgan-Short, University of Illinois Chicago, USA In this cutting-edge and mesmerizingly insightful handbook, Drs. Wong and Barcroft share the writings of a generation’s worth of wisdom on the brain’s mechanisms in acquiring new languages. This is a volume every applied linguist should read. Paula Winke, Michigan State University, USA