none 10.1075/bpa.12.06kar John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 129378181 3864874 2079412 202507021751000059 10.1075 2025-07-02T11:51:16Z 2021-08-12T05:41:41Z 14 2352-0531 10.1075/bpa https://benjamins.com/ catalog/bpa Edith Kaan University of Florida https://ror.org/02y3ad647 Theres Grüter University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa https://ror.org/01wspgy28 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6354-9787 There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume presents a collection of current research, insights, and directions regarding the role of prediction in L2 processing and learning. The contributions in this volume specifically address how different (L1-based) theoretical models of prediction apply to or may be expanded to account for L2 processing, report new insights on factors (linguistic, cognitive, social) that modulate L2 users’ engagement in prediction, and discuss the functions that prediction may or may not serve in L2 processing and learning. Taken together, this volume illustrates various fruitful approaches to investigating and accounting for differences in predictive processing within and across individuals, as well as across populations. 12 9 22 2021 8 12 2021 9789027209702 9789027258946 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/bpa.12 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027258946 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027258946.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/bpa.12/html Figen Karaca Radboud University https://ror.org/016xsfp80 Susanne Brouwer Radboud University https://ror.org/016xsfp80 Sharon Unsworth Radboud University https://ror.org/016xsfp80 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-2362 Falk Huettig Radboud University https://ror.org/016xsfp80 Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics https://ror.org/00671me87 The missing piece of the puzzle Abstract A wealth of studies has shown that more proficient monolingual speakers are better at predicting upcoming information during language comprehension. 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