The Symposium will analyse the underlying cognitive factors governing the acquisition and learning of foreign languages and how such factors can and should be fostered through teaching. More specifically, this Symposium will examine the interface issue between explicit and implicit knowledge and learning, especially from the perspective of language teaching. We aim to study in which way language teaching activities and materials can foster the development of explicit learning –as mainly centred on linguistic forms- and implicit learning –as primarily focused on communicative messages– and, therefore, how such pedagogical tools can stimulate the acquisition of explicit and implicit knowledge. Proposals for short papers and posters may be submitted up to the 10th October 2012, with notification of acceptance by the 1st November 2012. Organizan:Aquilino Sánchez y María del Pilar García MayoContact: asanchez@um.es
