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Author Benati, Alessandro G., author

Title Input processing and processing instruction : the acquisition of Italian and modern standard Arabic / Alessandro Benati, University of Hong Kong
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Bilingual Processing and Acquisition ; v.11
Bilingual processing and acquisition ; 11.
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
Summary "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. Collectively, the studies-which using both offline (e.g., sentence and discourse-level tasks) and online tests (e.g., eye-tracking) to measure the effects of this instructional training-provide readers with an overview of the ongoing research within this framework and bring to light important implications of structured input and processing instruction in second language acquisition"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021027375
ISBN 9789027259059
9027259054