Peter Robinson (10) (1956–)

Peter Robinson is Professor of Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. His research is into such issues as task-based language learning, the structure of aptitudes for instructed learning, and the role of attention and awareness show more during implicit and explicit learning. His books include Cognition and Second Language Instruction (2001), Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning (2002), The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (with Nick Ellis) (2008), and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition (to appear, 2012). show less