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Publication details [#30414]

Patten, Bill Van. 2002. Processing Instruction, Prior Awareness and the Nature of Second Language Acquisition: A (Partial) Response to Batstone. Language Awareness 11 (4) : 240–258.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse | instructing1 | L2-acquisition

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0965-8416

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper argues that Batstone's (2002) analysis and critique of Processing Instruction is unfounded, and that, rather than standing in contrast to his given-to-new principle, Processing Instruction provides a good supplement to this 'discourse'-oriented approach to instruction.