“…In spite of a number of analyses ripened to reply these queries (e.g., Basnight & Altarriba, 2007;Bassetti & Cook, 2011;Bultena, Dijkstra, & van Hell, 2014;Casaponsa, Antón, Pérez, Dunabeitia, &Mikeletegi, 2015;Ferré, Sánchez-Casas, & Guasch, 2006;Guasch, Sánchez-Casas, Ferré, & García-Albea, 2008;Kroll & Linck, 2007;Sunderman & Kroll, 2006), they are still object of controversy. One of the foremost powerful prototypes within the SLA area is the Revised Hierarchic Model (RHM) by Kroll and Stewart (1994).…”