摘要：Thie study investigates how noticing of L2 instances in input relates to working memory (WM) capacity and to grammatical accuracy in
L2 oral tasks. Participants were 30 Brazilian adult learners of English who
were required to perform " ve tasks aimed at assessing (a) WM capacity,
(b) grammatical accuracy in oral performance, and (c) noticing of formal
aspects of a target structure. The results show that there are statistically
signi" cant relationships among noticing of L2 formal features, grammatical accuracy in L2 oral performance and WM capacity. Together, the results can be taken as evidence that learners with a larger WM capacity
are also more prone to noticing L2 formal aspects and to performing more
grammatically accurate speech in the L2.
关键词：noticing; working memory capacity; maintenance of L2 forms; L2 oral performance
