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DeKeyser, Robert; Salaberry, Rafael; Robinson, Peter; Harrington, Michael – Language Learning, 2002
Responds to VanPatten's update of the findings for processing instruction. Questions the explanatory adequacy of the model of input processing that VanPatten proposed and that underpins his pedagogic proposals. Questions the validity of the limited-capacity, single-resource model of attention proposed for second language learning. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Input, Models

Juffs, Alan; Harrington, Michael – Language Learning, 1996
Expands on the authors' (1995) investigation of the parsing performance on "wh"-movement sentences by Chinese-speaking learners of English. The article compares the difficulty second-language learners have in parsing subject "wh"-traces in embedded finite and nonfinite clauses with the problems they have in parsing Garden Path…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)