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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. 135–154

Chapter 7
Enhanced structured input vs. unenhanced structured input on the acquisition of modern standard Arabic gender agreement

Sentence and discourse-level tasks (with Ayah Farhat)

Article outline
  • 7.1Introduction
  • 7.2Background
    • The effects of textual or aural enhanced structured input
    • Will enhanced and unenhanced structured input help learners process non-meaningful and redundant forms?
    • Can enhanced structured input help push learners to process a meaningful form over a lexical item?
    • Will enhanced and unenhanced structured input help direct learners’ attention to meaningful morphology in sentence final position?
  • 7.3Motivation and research questions in the present study
  • 7.4Design
    • Participants
    • The target feature
    • Procedure
    • Pedagogical materials
    • Assessment tasks
  • 7.5Results
    • Interpretation data sentence-level
    • Interpretation data discourse-level
    • Production data sentence-level
  • 7.6Discussions and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
Published online: 8 September 2021
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