ABSTRACT
The use of structural priming, joint attention, and elicited imitation as experimental methods in ISLA has potential to provide further insight into how L2 learning is affected by systematic manipulations of learning mechanisms and conditions. The key concepts of structural priming include picture description, sentence recall, sentence completion and scripted interaction. The key concepts of joint attention include initiating joint attention, responding to joint attention, interactive hand gestures and conversational facial displays. The L2 structural priming research to date has largely focused on whether priming occurs during L2 speech production by targeting a variety of structures and using different experimental techniques, such as picture description and scripted interaction. Similar to structural priming research, joint attention studies also have potential to contribute to research about cross-linguistic influence. This chapter highlights methodological differences in the design, administration, and scoring of elicitation imitation.
