Grammar Acquisition and Processing Instruction: Secondary and Cumulative Effects Book

Introduction

1 A Theory of Input Processing: How Learners Work with Input 1

2 Processing Instruction: Research and Practice in Assessing Primary Effects 24

3 From Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of Italian Noun-Adjective Agreement to Secondary Transfer-of-Training Effects on Italian Future Tense Verb Morphology 54

4 From Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of English Past Tense to Secondary Transfer-of-Training Effects on English Third Person Singular Present Tense (with Scott Dean Houghton) 88

5 From Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of French Imparfait to Secondary Transfer-of-Training Effects on French Subjunctive and to Cumulative Transfer-of-Training Effects with French Causative Constructions (with Cecile Laval) 121

Final Comments 158

Appendices 176

References 205

Index 210