Validating an Elicited Imitation Task as a Measure of Implicit Knowledge: Comparisons With Other Validation Studies

Language Learning

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 723-751

  Spada, Nina ^a   Shiu, Julie Li Ju ^b   Tomita, Yasuyo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Elicited imitation; Explicit knowledge; Implicit knowledge; Second language acquisition; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937944829     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12129     Document Type: Article

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