Grammar Acquisition and Processing Instruction : : Secondary and Cumulative Effects / / Alessandro Benati, James F. Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Benati, Alessandro,; Lee, James F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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 a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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