This paper reports a study of VanPatten's processing instruction (PI) and Ray's TPRS. High school students in a beginning Spanish course were divided into three groups (PI, TPRS, and control) and instructed in forms using the Spanish verb gustar. Treatment included sentence-level and discourse-level input, and tests included interpretation and production measures in a pretest, an immediate posttest, and a delayed posttest given two and a half months following treatment. The PI group made the greatest gains in production measures and in a grammaticality judgment test, and the TPRS group made the greatest gains in written fluency. The PI group's statistical gains in production measures held through the delayed posttest.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc67982 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Foster, Sarah Jenne |
| Contributors | Larson-Hall, Jenifer, Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi, Vigil, Donny A. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English, Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Foster, Sarah Jenne, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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