The Role of Attention and Awareness in the Acquisition of English Lexical Collocations

Abstract

The present cross-sectional theory-driven study aimed to examine Schmidt's Noticing Hypothesis by investigating the effects of different kinds of input presentation (that are assumed to engender different levels of awareness on the part of the learners) on subsequent learning outcomes.Three kinds of input presentation were used in three experimental groups involving 78 participants : presentation of input together with explicit instruction (assumed to engender the high level of awareness, unders