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Input Processing and Processing Instruction
The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book, new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input processing strategies affect the acquisition of a particular linguistic feature and/or structure in the two languages. The studies use both offline (e.g., sentence and discourse-level tasks) and online tests (e.g., eye-tracking) to measure the effects of this instructional training.
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 11] 2021. xv, 185 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 August 2021
Published online on 12 August 2021
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
- Prologue | pp. xiii–xvi
- Part I. Input processing and processing instruction
- Chapter 1. Input processing theory (with Khawlah Ahmed) | pp. 3–18
- Chapter 2. Processing instruction research in Italian and modern standard Arabic | pp. 19–44
- Part II. The effects of structured input on the acquisition of Italian
- Chapter 3. Structured input vs. textual enhancement on the acquisition of Italian subjunctive of doubt: Sentence and discourse-level tasks (with Gaia Chiuchiu) | pp. 47–66
- Chapter 4. Structured input vs. traditional instruction on the acquisition of Italian gender agreement: Interpretation discourse-level tasks | pp. 67–88
- Chapter 5. Structured input vs. meaning output-based instruction on the acquisition of Italian passive constructions: An eye-tracking study | pp. 89–108
- Part III. The effects of structured input on the acquisition of modern standard Arabic
- Chapter 6. Processing modern standard Arabic transitive sentences: Investigating L1 transfer and First-Noun Principle effects (with Carl O’Donoghue) | pp. 111–134
- Chapter 7. Enhanced structured input vs. unenhanced structured input on the acquisition of modern standard Arabic gender agreement: Sentence and discourse-level tasks (with Ayah Farhat) | pp. 135–154
- Part IV. Conclusive remarks
- Chapter 8. Implications, limitations and further research | pp. 157–176
- Epilogue | pp. 177–182
- Author index | pp. 183–184
- Subject index | p. 185
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