ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a model of the L2 learning process in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (SLA), followed by a detailed description of each of its stages along the learning process, namely the input processing, intake processing, and knowledge processing stages together with the L2 developing system. This model is premised on the role of attention in the process of learning an L2; that is, without attention minimally paid to new information in the L2 data, the process of learning anything is almost not likely to occur, especially in the foreign language classroom context. To explicate the roles of level of intake, depth of processing, type of linguistic item, and reactivity in adult L2 learner's subsequent intake, the study employed both eye-tracking and concurrent verbal reports. Ninety-six beginning learners of Spanish read a text and then completed production, recognition, and comprehension assessments in a pretest/posttest design.
