Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Cognitive processing in second language acquisition / Martin Pütz and Laura Sicola -- Section I. Cognitive theoretical foundations of language and learning -- 1. Concept stretching and model merging: An attempt to better account for L2 processing and acquisition of grammatical constructions / Mark Fifer Seilhamer -- 2. Construction learning as category learning / Nick C. Ellis -- 3. The role of relevance theory in SLA studies / Maria Jod±lowiec -- 4. Distinct mechanisms in the processing of English past tense morphology: A view from L2 processing / Bilal Kirkici -- 5. Third language acquisition, macrocategories and synonymy / Ksenya Filatova -- Section II. The mental processes and acquisition procedures followed by language learners -- 6. First exposure: Converting target language input to intake / Rebekah Rast -- 7. On the stability of representations in the multilingual lexicon / Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie -- 8. Conceptual representations in the multilingual mind: A study of advanced Dutch students of English / Wander Lowie, Marjolijn Verspoor and Bregtje Seton -- 9. Formulaic language in L2: Storage, retrieval and production of idioms by second language learners / Anna Cieslicka -- 10. A procedure for testing the Noticing Hypothesis in the context of vocabulary acquisition / Aline Godfroid, Alex Housen and Frank Boers -- 11. Construal and the use of impersonalisation strategies in English and Spanish in an FLL context / Juana I. Marín Arrese -- 12. Inside the attriter's mind: A comparative exploration of the cognitive constraints in Dutch L1 attrition in an L2 English environment and advanced Dutch L1 acquisition / Merel Keijzer -- Section III. Cognitive language pedagogy : classroom studies with applications for teaching -- 13. Situating and distributing cognition across task demands : The SSARC model of pedagogic task sequencing / Peter Robinson -- 14. Typology in the L2 classroom: Second language acquisition from a typological perspective / Luna Filipoviâc and Ivana Vidakoviâc -- 15. Metaphoric competence in the first and second language : Similarities and differences / Jeannette Littlemore -- 16. Figurative competence is better developed in L1 than in L2, or is it? Understanding conversational implicatures in L1 and L2 / Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman and Anna Ewert -- 17. Attention to phonological form : Modified output in task-based negotiated interaction / Laura Sicola -- 18. Quality and type of corrective feedback, noticing, and learner uptake in synchronous computer-mediated text-based and voice chats / Susana Sotillo -- Index.