Individual Differences and Processing Instruction - James F. Lee
4. Age and the Effects of Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of English Passive Constructions among School Children and Adult Native Speakers of Turkish
Individual Differences and Processing Instruction - James F. Lee
Alessandro G. Benati [+]
University of Portsmouth
Professor Alessandro Benati is Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Head of School of Languages and Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He is internationally known for his research in second language learning and teaching, with special emphases on processing instruction. He is a pioneering researcher in the area of second language acquisition (SLA) and has built a reputation on two fronts. On one front, he is a premier Italian language scholar producing the most empirical work on the teaching and acquisition of Italian in the world. On the other front, he is a scholar in the more general field of instructed SLA, with an emphasis on the effects of formal instruction on the acquisition of grammatical properties by second language learners. He has a strong publications record with 12 established monographs, chapters and articles in international journals (Language Awareness, IRAL, and Language Teaching Research).
Description
In this chapter, the authors provide further evidence in support of the Age Hypothesis and the Native Language Hypothesis by measuring the effects of processing instruction on the acquisition of English passive constructions among school-age and adult native speakers of Turkish. Processing instruction was used in this study to alter one of the processing strategies captured by VanPatten’s (1996) First Noun Principle (P2).