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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821579303321

Autore

Benati Alessandro G.

Titolo

Processing instruction and discourse / / Alessandro G. Benati and James F. Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

ISBN

1-4742-1231-X

1-282-59064-2

9786612590641

1-4411-3685-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Languages, Modern - Grammar - Study and teaching

Second language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages[226]-231) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

; Part 1: Processing instruction: theory, practice, and research. VanPatten's theory of input processing -- Practical model: processing instruction -- Processing instruction: experimental research -- ; Part 2: Processing instruction and discourse -- Exploring the effects of processing instruction on a discourse-level guided composition with the Spanish subjunctive after the adverb cuando / Erin M. McNulty -- Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with the Japanese passive construction / Noriko Hikima -- Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with English past tense -- Exploring the effects of discourse-level structured input activities with French causative / Wynne Wong.

Sommario/riassunto

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 le