Frontmatter -- Contents -- Investigating Instructed Second Language -- Acquisition -- Investigating cognitive and processing mechanisms -- in instructed SLA -- Instructed learners' fluency and implicit/explicit -- language processes -- Psycholinguistic aspects of gender acquisition in -- instructed GFL learning -- Language analytic ability and oral production in a -- second language: Is there a connection? -- Formal instruction and the acquisition of verbal -- morphology -- Investigating the role and effects of form-focused -- instruction -- Teaching marked linguistic structures - more about -- the acquisition of relative clauses by Arab learners of English -- The importance of form/meaning mappings in explicit -- form-focused instruction -- Structure complexity and the efficacy of explicit -- grammar instruction -- Focus on formS as a means of improving accurate -- oral production -- Instructed Second Language Vocabulary Learning: The -- fault in the 'default hypothesis' -- Investigating the role and effects interaction and -- Communication-Focused Instruction -- Negative feedback and learner uptake in analytic -- foreign language teaching -- Noticing and the role of interaction in promoting -- language learning -- Interactional strategies for interlanguage -- communication: Do they provide evidence for attention to form? -- Assessment of the role of communication tasks in -- the development of second language oral production skills -- Language learning in content-based -- instruction -- Effects of teacher discourse on learner discourse -- in a second language classroom -- Comparing the effects of instructed and -- naturalistic L2 acquisition contexts -- Second language acquisition in a study abroad -- context: A comparative investigation of the effects of study abroad and -- foreign language instruction on the L2 learner's grammatical -- development -- The effect of type of acquisition context on -- perception and self-reported use of swearwords in L2, L3, L4 and -- L5 -- Backmatter