Grammar acquisition and processing instruction : secondary and cumulative effects / Alessandro G. Benati and James F. Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benati, Alessandro G.

Contributor:

Lee, James F. (James Francis), 1958-

Series:

Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England)

Second language acquisition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Research on Processing Instruction has so far investigated the primary effects of Processing Instruction. In this book the results of a series of experimental studies investigating possible secondary and cumulative effects of Processing Instruction on the acquisition of French, Italian and English as a second language will be presented. The results of the three experiments have demonstrated that Processing Instruction not only provides learners the direct or primary benefit of learning to process and produce the morphological form on which they received instruction, but also a secondary benefit in that they transferred that training to processing and producing another morphological form on which they had received no instruction.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Theory of Input Processing: How Learners Work with Input

Chapter 2. Processing Instruction: Research and Practice in Assessing Primary Effects

Chapter 3. From Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of Italian Noun–Adjective Agreement to Secondary Transfer-of-Training Effects on Italian Future Tense Verb Morphology

Chapter 4. From Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of English Past Tense to Secondary Transfer-of-Training Effects on English Third Person Singular Present Tense

Chapter 5. From Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of French Imparfait to Secondary Transfer-of-Training Effects on French Subjunctive and to Cumulative Transfer-of-Training Effects with French Causative Constructions

Chapter 6. Final Comments

Appendices

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index.

ISBN:

9786611878474

9781788920506

1788920503

9781281878472

1281878472

9781847691057

1847691056

OCLC:

437237423