Input processing and processing instruction : the acquisition of Italian and modern standard Arabic

Input processing and processing instruction : the acquisition of Italian and modern standard Arabic / Alessandro Benati, University of Hong Kong.

"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...

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Main Author: Benati, Alessandro G. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Series:Bilingual processing and acquisition ; 11.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Italian language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
Arabic language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
Second language acquisition.
Arabic language > Study and teaching
Italian language > Study and teaching
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Input Processing and Processing Instruction
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • Part I. Input processing and processing instruction
  • Chapter 1. Input processing theory: (with Khawlah Ahmed)
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 The input processing theory
  • 1.3 The Primacy of Meaning Principle and its sub-principles
  • Content words
  • Lexical preference
  • Redundancy and meaningfulness
  • Resources
  • Location
  • 1.4 The First Noun Principle and its subprinciples
  • Lexical semantics
  • Event probabilities
  • 1.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Processing instruction research in Italian and modern standard Arabic
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Processing instruction
  • 2.3 The effects of structured input practice on circumventing processing strategies
  • The lexical preference principle
  • The preference for non-redundancy principle
  • The Sentence Location Principle
  • The first noun principle
  • 2.4 Measuring the effects of processing instruction on the acquisition of Italian
  • Empirical studies on verbal and nominal morphology (Primacy of Meaning Principles and its subprinciples)
  • Empirical studies on the first noun principle and its subprinciples
  • 2.5 Measuring the effects of processing instruction on the acquisition of modern standard Arabic
  • Empirical studies on the primacy of meaning principle and its sub-principles
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • 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)
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Background
  • The processing problem of non-meaningfulness, redundancy and location
  • Empirical research measuring structured input practice (enhanced and unenhanced)
  • Empirical research measuring discourse-level effects
  • The role of structured input
  • 3.3 Motivation and research questions for the present study
  • 3.4 Design
  • Participants
  • Target feature
  • Procedure
  • Instructional materials
  • Textual enhancement
  • Control
  • Assessment tasks
  • 3.5 Results
  • Results from the sentence-level interpretation task
  • Results from the sentence-level production task
  • Results from the discourse-level interpretation task
  • Summary of results
  • 3.6 Discussion and conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Structured input vs. traditional instruction on the acquisition of Italian gender agreement: Interpretation discourse-level tasks
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Background
  • Measuring the effects of processing instruction on Italian gender agreement

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