Can Learners Attend to Form and Content while Processing Input?.

VanPatten, Bill

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Publication Date: 1989

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Can Learners Attend to Form and Content while Processing Input?

VanPatten, Bill

Hispania, v72 n2 p409-17 May 1989

A study investigated the ability of second language learners of Spanish to simultaneously process form and meaning during input. The students' conscious attention to form competed with conscious attention to meaning, and it is suggested that learners could attend to form during the intake process only when input was easily understandable. (CB)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Processing, Language Skills, Listening Comprehension, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Spanish

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