Title
Comparing Three Modes of Delivering Processing Instruction on Preterite/Imperfect Distinction and Negative Informal Commands in Spanish
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2007
Department
Spanish
Language
English
Publication Title
Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and in Virtual Contexts: Research and Practice
Abstract
Language instruction, as is true of many fields, is always searching for the 'next big thing' , the method, approach, procedures or practices that will help students to learn faster and retain longer. We speak of helping students to learn rather than causing learning to happen because we have long recognised the validity of Stevick's (1976) discussion of the relationship between meaning and memory; some students learn what they are taught and others do not because learning does not so much result from, as interacts with, teaching. But what we have learned from the research on PI is that some teaching is, in and of itself, more effective than others.
Recommended Citation
Aguilar-Sánchez, Jorge, and Erin M. McNulty. "Comparing Three Modes of Delivering Processing Instruction on Preterite/Imperfect Distinction and Negative Informal Commands in Spanish." In Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and in Virtual Contexts: Research and Practice, by James F. Lee and Alessandro G. Benati, 73-98. London, UK: Equinox, 2007.
Comments
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