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Indrarathne, Bimali; Kormos, Judit – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
In this study we examined language learners' attentional processing of a target syntactic construction in written L2 input in different input conditions, the change in learners' knowledge of the targeted construction in these conditions, and the relationship between the change in knowledge and attentional processing. One hundred L2 learners of…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Attention
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Arani, Samaneh Ghanei; Yazdanimoghaddam, Massood – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2016
The present study was an attempt to examine the impact of input flooding (IF) and textual enhancement (TIE) on EFL learners' syntactic development. Four homogenous groups were selected based on the pre-test and placement tests. During the treatment, the first group (i.e., IF) received reading comprehension passages in which the structure was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Erfe, Jonathan P.; Lintao, Rachelle B. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
This is an experimental study on the relative effects of Van Patten's Processing Instruction (PI) (1996, 2002), a "psycholinguistically-motivated" intervention in teaching second-language (L2) grammar, on young-adult Filipino learners of English. A growing body of research on this methodological alternative, which establishes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Teaching Methods