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Language Learning

December 2011 Volume 61, Number 4

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Number of articles: 2

  1. The Roles of Structured Input Activities in Processing Instruction and the Kinds of Knowledge They Promote

    Emma Marsden & Hsin-Ying Chen

    This study aimed to isolate the effects of the two input activities in Processing Instruction: referential activities, which force learners to focus on a form and its meaning, and affective... More

    pp. 1058-1098

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  2. Learning a Tonal Language by Attending to the Tone: An in Vivo Experiment

    Ying Liu, Min Wang, Charles A. Perfetti, Brian Brubaker, Sumei Wu & Brian MacWhinney

    Learning the Chinese tone system is a major challenge to students of Chinese as a second or foreign language. Part of the problem is that the spoken Chinese syllable presents a complex perceptual... More

    pp. 1119-1141

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