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Subjects completed the recall task under one of three conditions: (1) listening for content only; (2) listening for content while simultaneously noting every occurrence of an element of low communicative value (the verb estar); (3) listening for content while simultaneously noting every occurrence of an element of high communicative value (the noun examenes).","Statistical analyses revealed significant main effects for Communicative Value and Linguistic Knowledge in overall discourse level processing. A significant main effect for Linguistic Knowledge was obtained for the recall of estar propositions in the discourse level task. A significant main effect was obtained for Linguistic Knowledge in the sentence level task. A significant correlation was found between the processing of estar at the discourse level and the sentence level.","The results revealed that subjects were affected by focus of attention in support of the communicative value hypothesis. Evidence was not found to support the hypotheses that linguistic knowledge would not relate to input processing. It is suggested that learners who demonstrate linguistic knowledge of an element of low communicative value may have greater L2 knowledge in general than those who do not demonstrate such knowledge.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:08:44Z (GMT). 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