ABSTRACT
This chapter examines that according to distributed editor theory, monitoring is an automatic by-product of bottom-up activation spreading. Editor theories of monitoring assume that the editor can veto and replace the incorrect output of the speech production processes. In L2 production, the investigation of monitoring involves the analysis of various types of self-repairs found in the speech of learners, their syntactic structure, and the timing of corrections. Monitoring is also considered to be an important process of L2 production because it is believed to contribute to language learning by making learners notice deficiencies in their knowledge of the target language. The study of monitoring also revealed that the speed of detecting pragmatically inappropriate words and lexical errors was very similar, which might mean that during monitoring the pragmatic features of the lexical entry are checked simultaneously with its phonological and semantic form, as well as its argument structure.
