ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the online practice of shadowing may improve the subvocal rehearsal in phonological working memory and how this may result in the transfer to other aspects of second language (L2) learnability. For L2 acquisition, there have been only a few studies that have attempted to focus on the relationship between articulation speed and memory capacity. The role of prosody, particularly that of language rhythm, is thus supposed to play a part at the sentence processing stage of constructing phrase-like chunks in silent reading comprehension in English as L2. Long-term memory is often divided into two main categories: explicit memory and implicit memory. Episodic memory is the memory of specific events in our life and is supposed to be specific in time and place. Implicit, nondeclarative memory is known to be unconscious in nature and to involve more subcomponents than explicit memory.
