Processing Instruction and Discourse

Dr Alessandro G Benati is Principal Lecturer in SLA and Head of the Department of Languages and International Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. James F. Lee is Head of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I: Processing Instruction: Theory, Practice and Research; 1. Input processing theory; 2. Processing instruction: practical model; 3. Processing instruction: experimental research; Part II: Processing Instruction and Discourse; 4. Processing instruction and discourse-level tasks on the acquisition of Spanish Subjunctive/Indicative Contrast with cuando; 5. Processing instruction and discourse-level tasks on the acquisition of Japanese Passive Forms (with Noriko Hikima, Japan Foundation London Language Centre, UK); 6. Processing instruction and discourse-level tasks on the acquisition of English Past Tense; 7. The effects of discourse-level structured input activities on the French Causative, Wynne Wong (The Ohio State University, USA); 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

"All readers -SLA researchers, language program administrators and teachers- will find in this volume a broad-ranging treatment of Processing Instruction and VanPatten's model of Input Processing that motivates it. Processing Instruction and Discourse summarizes in a most efficient way previous research on PI and reports on a number of new, fascinating empirical studies. This timely volume extends what we know about the effectiveness of PI to an impressive number of variables, including new structures, new languages, and to discourse. Importantly, it moves PI to a new context: from college language programs to primary, middle and high-school classrooms." - Associate Professor, Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University, USA