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Processing Instruction, Prior Awareness, and the Nature of Second Language Acquisition: A (Partial) Response to Batstone.
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VanPatten, Bill – Language Awareness, 2002
Reviews the nature of processing instruction (PI) and the research that has been conducted on it since 1993. Concludes that Batstone's (2002a) analysis and critique of PI is unfounded and that PI captures his given-to-new principle via the feedback learners get during instruction. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Feedback, Learning Processes, Metalinguistics, Prior Learning
Foreign Language Study and Language Awareness.
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Hawkins, Eric W. – Language Awareness, 1999
Reexamines the interface between foreign language study and language awareness (LA) in the light of developments since LA was first proposed 25 years ago. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Feedback, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
Grammar Instruction in Language Development: Rationale and Technique.
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Mohammed, Abdelmoneim M. – Language Awareness, 1995
Argues that the teaching of grammar supplements learners' natural tendency to formulate and test hypotheses about the language. Complicated linguistic analyses can impede this process. Pedagogical grammar can be made less formal by keeping the analysis and metalanguage to the minimum. (36 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Objectives, Feedback, Grammar