Processing Instruction and Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 3. November 2011
248 pages
978-1-4411-4043-2 (ISBN)
Description
Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditional grammar instruction in its focus on structured input rather than learners' output.
This book compares student assessment after traditional grammar instruction and after Processing Instruction to assess the positive benefits of this method of second language teaching. Rather than examining sentence-level tasks, the study looks at the relative effectiveness of Processing Instruction on discourse-level linguistic ability.
Case studies using empirical data from second language learners of Japanese, Italian and English are used to highlight the benefits to the learner of this method of enhanced input. This monograph will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching second language acquisition and applied linguistics.
This book compares student assessment after traditional grammar instruction and after Processing Instruction to assess the positive benefits of this method of second language teaching. Rather than examining sentence-level tasks, the study looks at the relative effectiveness of Processing Instruction on discourse-level linguistic ability.
Case studies using empirical data from second language learners of Japanese, Italian and English are used to highlight the benefits to the learner of this method of enhanced input. This monograph will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching second language acquisition and applied linguistics.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-4043-2 (9781441140432)
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Alessandro G. Benati | James F. Lee
Processing Instruction and Discourse
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01/2012
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Persons
Alessandro G. Benati is Professor in Second Language Acquisition and Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Greenwich, UK.
James F. Lee is Head of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Content
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I: Processing Instruction: Theory, Practice and Research
1. VanPatten's Theory of Input Processing
2. Practical Model: Processing instruction
3. Processing instruction: experimental research
Part II: Processing Instruction and Discourse
4. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on a discourse-level guided composition with the Spanish subjunctive after the adverb cuando (with Erin M. McNulty)
5. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with the Japanese passive construction (with Noriko Hikima, Japan Foundation London Language Centre, UK)
6. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with English past tense
7. Exploring the effects of discourse-level structured input activities with French causative (with Wynne Wong, The Ohio State University, USA)
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Part I: Processing Instruction: Theory, Practice and Research
1. VanPatten's Theory of Input Processing
2. Practical Model: Processing instruction
3. Processing instruction: experimental research
Part II: Processing Instruction and Discourse
4. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on a discourse-level guided composition with the Spanish subjunctive after the adverb cuando (with Erin M. McNulty)
5. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with the Japanese passive construction (with Noriko Hikima, Japan Foundation London Language Centre, UK)
6. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with English past tense
7. Exploring the effects of discourse-level structured input activities with French causative (with Wynne Wong, The Ohio State University, USA)
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
