Date: 06-Oct-2008 From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Grammar Acquisition and Processing Instruction: Benati, Lee E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Grammar Acquisition and Processing Instruction
Subtitle: Secondary and Cumulative Effects
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition
Published: 2008
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Author: Alessandro G. Benati
Author: James F. Lee
Hardback: ISBN: 9781847691040 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781847691040 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 69.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781847691033 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 29.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781847691033 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 59.95
Abstract:
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.
Linguistic Field(s):
Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics