Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues
Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 7] 2019. ix, 404 pp.
Jana Roos
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jana Roos plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2019 Chapter 1. Contextualising issues in Processability Theory Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues, Lenzing, Anke, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 17. How does PT’s view of acquisition relate to the challenge of widening perspectives on SLA? Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues, Lenzing, Anke, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos (eds.), pp. 391–398 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 12. Exploiting the potential of tasks for targeted language learning in the EFL classroom Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues, Lenzing, Anke, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos (eds.), pp. 285–300 | Chapter
This chapter reports on a classroom study showing how communicative tasks that include a focus on the developmental readiness of the learners promote the acquisition process. The study explores the effects of the use of such tasks with young German learners of English. It is based on the idea that… read more
2019 Using young learners’ language environments for EFL learning: Ways of working with linguistic landscapes Policy and practice in early language learning, Enever, Janet and Patricia Driscoll (eds.), pp. 91–111 | Article
In this article we explore how primary school learners of English in Germany engage with examples of English that they were asked to locate in their local environments (their linguistic landscapes, LLs). In association with each located image, the learners completed a standardised worksheet in… read more
2016 Acquisition as a gradual process: Second language development in the EFL classroom Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages, Keßler, Jörg-U., Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Article
This chapter explores the potential of communicative tasks with a developmentally moderated focus on form to promote the acquisition of grammatical features in the EFL classroom. Task-based language teaching in combination with a focus on form is discussed as a methodological approach that can… read more
2015 Chapter 12. Response Paper: Language Teaching and Learning from a PT Perspective Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory, Baten, Kristof, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe (eds.), pp. 263–270 | Article