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Explicit Input Enhancement: Effects on Target and Non‐Target Aspects of Second Language Acquisition
Author(s) -
Gascoigne Carolyn
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2006.tb02275.x
Subject(s) - recall , second language acquisition , process (computing) , computer science , language acquisition , psychology , linguistics , natural language processing , human–computer interaction , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , programming language , philosophy
Many recent studies have examined the effectiveness of various types of input enhancement. The following study expands this line of inquivy to include tech nological applications of language learning by comparing the effectiveness of the com puter application of diacritics to a traditional pen‐and‐paper process among beginning students of French and Spanish. In addition to studying the effect of computer‐mediated input enhancement on the recall of accents, this study also questions the incidental effects of input enhancement on non‐target aspects of the second language acquisition (SLA) process. Results support the effectiveness of explicit and computer‐mediated input enhancement.