【講座介紹】
This will be mainly a theoretical talk, discussing the nature of input, its role in second language learning, and its use in language teaching (in very general terms). A key concept is implicit (unconscious) learning, contrasting with explicit (conscious) learning, so the talk will also consider what it actually is, and isn’t. The field of Second Language Acquisition is moving toward a consensus that second languages, like first languages, are acquired primarily through implicit learning, based on extensive input, making input the most important feature of second language teaching. There are two general options for the use of input in teaching: (a) try to assist the natural implicit processes by directing learners’ attention to selected features of the input, probably using explicit instruction; (b) trust the natural implicit processes, trying simply to create optimal conditions for them. The conclusion here will be that (b) appears preferable.

 【講者簡介】
John Truscott is Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Learning Sciences and Technologies at National Tsing Hua University. His primary research interest is the Modular Cognition Framework, but he has also published extensively in various areas of second language learning and teaching, notably error correction. His books include The Multilingual Mind: A Modular Processing Perspective (with Mike Sharwood Smith), Consciousness and Second Language Learning, The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing (with Sharwood Smith), and Working Memory in the Modular Mind.

講題：Input in Second Language Learning and Teaching
講者：卓江 John Truscott 老師（國立清華大學學習科學與科技研究所榮譽教授）
日期：6/17（六）下午13:00-15:00
地點：人文大樓4F05室
開放報名人數：20人，本校教師優先錄取，若額滿將提前關閉表單。
報名截止時間：6/5中午12:00，6/6將寄出報名確認信。

※ 本場講座全程以英語進行，且為實體講座，不提供現場連線或錄影。
※ 報名連結：https://reurl.cc/mlaZL1