STRUCTURED INPUT: GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION FOR THE ACQUISITION ORIENTED CLASSROOM (THE MCGRAW-HILL SECOND LANGUAGE PROFESSIONAL SERIES. PERSPECTIVES ON THEORY AND RESEARCH) - Softcover

Farley, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072887249 ISBN 13: 9780072887242

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

Synopsis

This new text in the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series brings together theory, research, and practice on structured input, an instructional technique that first emerged in the early 1990s in association with processing instruction. The author skillfully makes theoretical concepts and research accessible to the uninitiated reader while offering an abundance of examples of structured input activities in various languages. Researchers and instructors looking for more examples and clarification on structured input activities will welcome this new title.

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About the Author

Andrew P. Farley is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research are input processing in second language acquisition, the effects of instruction on second language acquisition, lexical access in early bilinguals, and the acquisition of second language morphology. He has taught a variety of courses ranging from beginning Spanish language courses to graduate seminars on applied linguistics and second language acquisition. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters and is the author of Structured Input: Grammar Instruction for the Acquisition Oriented Classroom (2005, McGraw-Hill), a book in the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072887249
• ISBN 13: 9780072887242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140