Individual Differences and Processing Instruction - Hardcover

Lee, James F

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845533437 ISBN 13: 9781845533434

Publisher: Equinox Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

This collection of essays builds on the authors previous work and aims to open an additional branch of research in Processing Instruction and to stimulate further research. This is the first collection of studies that empirically address the role that individual differences, such as age, gender, and native language background, might play in the results generated by Processing Instruction.

About this title

About the Author:

James F. Lee is Deputy Head of the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on second language reading comprehension and input processing. He is the author of Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms and is the co-author of Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen, both with McGraw-Hill. Alessandro G. Benati is Director of Research and Enterprise and Professor of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies at the University of Greenwich in the UK. He is the author or editor of a number of books including most recently Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and in Virtual Contexts: Research and Practice (co-authored with James F. Lee, Equinox, 2007), Grammar Acquisition and Processing Instruction: Secondary and Cumulative Effects (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Japanese Language Teaching: A Communicative Approach (Continuum, 2009).

Review:

Reviews "Individual Differences and Processing Instruction makes a significant contribution to L2 research on processing instruction by carefully examining the role of individual differences on results generated by this pedagogical intervention. A clear strength of the volume is its breadth in relation to the range of individual variables that are investigated, the linguistic forms and structures that are included and the number of first and second languages that are examined. A must-read for researchers and students interested in instructed second language acquisition in general and processing instruction in particular.' Teresa Cadierno, University of Southern Denmark

About this edition

• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1845533437
• ISBN 13: 9781845533434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Lee James F, Benati Alessandro G