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Input Processing and Processing Instruction: The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic
Alessandro G. Benati
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 11] 2021
► pp. 47–66

Chapter 3
Structured input vs. textual enhancement on the acquisition of Italian subjunctive of doubt

Sentence and discourse-level tasks (with Gaia Chiuchiu)

Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction
  • 3.2Background
    • 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
  • 3.3Motivation and research questions for the present study
  • 3.4Design
    • Participants
    • Target feature
    • Procedure
    • Instructional materials
      • Structured input
    • Textual enhancement
    • Control
    • Assessment tasks
  • 3.5Results
    • Results from the sentence-level interpretation task
    • Results from the sentence-level production task
    • Results from the discourse-level interpretation task
    • Summary of results
  • 3.6Discussion and conclusion
  • References
Published online: 8 September 2021
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