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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. 67–88

Chapter 4
Structured input vs. traditional instruction on the acquisition of Italian gender agreement

Interpretation discourse-level tasks

Article outline
  • 4.1Introduction
  • 4.2Background
    • Measuring the effects of processing instruction on Italian gender agreement
    • Measuring the effects of processing instruction through different tasks
      • Sentence-level tasks
      • Discourse-level production tasks
      • Discourse-level interpretation tasks
    • Research measuring short and long-term effects for processing instruction
  • 4.3Motivation and research questions for the present study
  • 4.4Design
    • Participants
    • Target feature
    • Procedure
    • Instructional materials
      • Structured input activities
      • È bella
      • Traditional instruction
      • Control
      • Assessment tasks
  • 4.5Results
    • Guided recall of the dialogue-based discourse-level
      • Immediate effects
      • Delayed effects
    • Guided recall of the story-based discourse-level interpretation data
      • Immediate effects
      • Delayed effects
  • 4.6Discussion and conclusion
  • References
Published online: 8 September 2021
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