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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Processing Instruction"”.
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Information processing instruction in Virginia Community Colleges
This was a study of the information processing instruction in Virginia Community Colleges. The purposes of the study were (a) to obtain baseline information about the information processing instruction programs, and (b) to evaluate the information processing programs using the information …
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Information processing instruction in Indiana public secondary business education
… was to determine to what extent information processing was being taught to students enrolled in business education curricula of Indiana public secondary schools. A secondary purpose of the study was to examine constraints that were perceived to have hampered the inclusion of information …
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A classroom quasi-experimental study to explore Processing Instruction
Processing Instruction (VanPatten, 1996, 2002a, 2004) contains two types of input activity: Referential activities, which force learners to focus on a form and its meaning, and affective activities, which contain multiple exemplars of the target form but focus learners' attention on the meaning of …
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Thinking outside the box: processing instruction and individual differences in working memory capacity
Processing Instruction is a pedagogic intervention that manipulates the L2 input learners are exposed to in the classroom. Proponents of this intervention claim that it poses a minimal strain on learners’ processing resources. While there has been extensive research on the benefits of Processing …
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Measuring primary, secondary and cumulative effects of processing instruction in the acquisition of French
… transfer-of-training effects of two types of instruction on the acquisition of the past imperfective aspect, subjunctive mood, and causative constructions in French. An input-based practice, Processing Instruction is compared to an output-based practice Traditional Instruction. More …
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The Relative Effects of Processing Instruction and Meaning -Based Output Instruction on L2 Acquisition of the Spanish Subjunctive
MOI is unlike traditional output-based instruction in that it does not carry a mechanical component. In addition, MOI provides incidental input to learners that is focused on the target item. These issues are discussed as the most plausible explanations for the results that differ from previous …
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Definite and Indefinite Articles in Learner English: Identifying the Learning Problem and Addressing It with Processing Instruction Intervention
… increased article omission. Drawing on Input Processing theory, I argue that learner difficulties might stem from the inappropriate processing of articles in the input, which leads to learners making incorrect mappings between form (articles) and meaning (identifiability). In addition, …
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The effects of processing instruction and re-exposure on interpretation discourse level tasks: the case of Japanese passive forms
… interpretation discourse level effects of processing instruction and re-exposure to processing instruction on the acquisition of a specific feature of the Japanese linguistics system: namely Japanese passive forms. Processing instruction is a type of focus on form which is framed around the …
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A comparative study of the effects of processing instruction and output-based instruction on the acquisition of Italian future tense
… possible effects of two types of form-focused instruction (henceforth FFI) on the acquisition of a specific feature of the Italian verbal morphology system: namely the future tense, which has hitherto never been researched within this framework. Processing instruction was compared to a more …
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Implicit and explicit instruction: what type of knowledge is promoted? : An empirical study investigating the effects of processing instruction, metalinguistic rule instruction and textual enhancement
… a pedagogical intervention such as form-focused instruction in order to gain proficiency in the L2. Form-focused instruction varies in its levels of explicitness as it comprises implicit types of training such as input enhancement and more explicit interventions like processing instruction. The …
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"Grammar instruction and input processing: The acquisition of Spanish ""ser"" and ""estar"""
This study examined the effects of two types of instruction on the acquisition of the Spanish copulas ser and estar by adult English-speaking learners of Spanish in a classroom setting. It compared traditional production-oriented instruction, processing instruction (VanPatten and Cadierno, 1993), …
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Markedness and instructed SLA: An experiment in teaching the Spanish subjunctive
… In particular, the study has examined whether instruction in a marked Spanish subjunctive use had an effect on the acquisition of this marked element and triggered the acquisition of unmarked subjunctive uses. For the purpose of the study, the instructional method used was processing …
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The impact of computer assisted instruction on sensory cognitive factors in literacy learning.
… was to examine the impact of computer assisted instruction on the development of literacy skills. The effect of instructional methodologies designed to stimulate sensory processing (auditory, visual, and somatic sensory) through information processing activities was analyzed. A software program …
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Input Processing and the Teaching of German Two-way Prepositions
… the last twenty years have focused on the input processing principles related to VanPatten’s approach to teaching grammar known as Processing Instruction (VanPatten and Cadierno, 1993; VanPatten, 2004; VanPatten, 2007; Lee and Benati, 2009). One of the principles, known as the Lexical Preference …
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Deep Molecular Characterization of Human Cortical Cell-Types
… functions, including but not limited to sensory processing, instruction and execution of motor movements, abstract thinking, perception, as well as speech processing and production. Over the past decades, detailed knowledge on the molecular characteristics of cortical cell-types has been obtained …