Language Learning
December 2011 Volume 61, Number 4
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 2
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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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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