Grammar Acquisition and Processing Instruction: Secondary and Cumulative Effects

✍ Scribed by Alessandro Benati; James F. Lee

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book establishes a unique line of research within the Processing Instruction model by assessing the transfer-of-training effects of this approach to grammar instruction on how learners make form-meaning connections. It examines the results of three studies investigating secondary and cumulative effects in French, Italian and English.

✦ Table of Contents

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