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...
Research on Processing Instruction has so far investigated the primary effects of Processing Instruction. In this book the results of a series of e...
Benati provides clarity about the characteristics and notion of language proficiency in the field of second language acquisition. He looks at four areas of research paradigmatically related to the role of proficiency: theorizing and measuring second language proficiency; the dimensions of L2 proficiency; factors contributing to the attainment of L2 proficiency and attaining L2 proficiency in the classroom.
It also contains a variety of research accounts about the specific factors which have an effect on proficiency together with a theorised measurement of proficiency in second...
Benati provides clarity about the characteristics and notion of language proficiency in the field of second language acquisition. He looks at four ...
