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1、SSLA,27,129±140+PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica+DOI:10+10170S0272263105050084THEORETICALANDEMPIRICALISSUESINTHESTUDYOFIMPLICITANDEXPLICITSECOND-LANGUAGELEARNINGIntroductionJanH+HulstijnUniversityofAmsterdamTherearegoodtheoreticalandeducationalreasonstoplacematte
2、rsofimplicitandexplicitlearninghighontheagendaforSLAresearch+Asfortheo-reticalmotivations,perhapsthemostcentralissueinSLAtheoryconstruc-tioninneedofexplanationisthedifferentialsuccessinone'sfirstlanguage~L1!andinone'ssecondlanguage~L2!+AlthoughacquisitionofanL1res
3、ultsinfullmasteryofthelanguage~providedthatchildrenareexposedtosuffi-cientquantitiesofinputanddonotsufferfrommentaldisabilities!,learnersofanL2ÐevenaftermanyyearsofL2exposureÐdifferwidelyinlevelofattain-ment+HowcanweexplainuniversalsuccessinthecaseofL1acquisitiona
4、nddifferentialsuccessinthecaseofL2acquisition?Amongthemanyexplana-tionsthathavebeenproposed,includingbrainmaturationandbrainadapta-tionprocesses~criticalperiod!,accesstoUniversalGrammar,L1interference,andsociopsychologicalfactors~seeHyltenstam&Abrahamsson,2003,for
5、areview!,onefindsexplanationsthatinvolvethenotionsofimplicitandexplicitlearning+Scholarsworkingindifferentdisciplines,indifferenttheoreticalschools,andsometimesusingdifferentterminologyhavearguedthatL1acqui-sition~oratleasttheacquisitionofL1grammar!reliesprincipal
6、lyonpro-cessesofwhatwemightnowcallimplicitlearning,whereastheacquisitionofanL2oftenreliesonbothimplicitandexplicitlearning~Bley-Vroman,1991;DeKeyser,2003;N+Ellis,thisissue;R+Ellis,2004;Krashen,1981;Reber&Allen,2000!+IamgratefultoRodEllisforhisthoughtfulcommentsonp
7、reviousversionsofthistext+Addresscorrespondenceto:JanH+Hulstijn,AmsterdamCenterforLanguageandCommunica-tion,FacultyofHumanities,UniversityofAmsterdam,134Spuistraat,1012VBAmsterdam,Nether-lands;e-mail:hulstijn@uva+nl+©2005CambridgeUniversityPress0272-2631005$12+001
8、29130JanH.HulstijnAsconcernseducationalmotivations,theextenttowhichimplicitandexplicitlearningcanbeshowntoexplainthedifferentialsuccessofSLAislikelytode
