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Optimal input for language learning: Genuine, simplified, elaborated, or modified elaborated?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2019

Michael H. Long
Michael H. Long*
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Discussions of optimal types of spoken and written input for language learning have traditionally focused on the relative merits of authentic and linguistically simplified spoken and written texts. I will argue that elaborated input and, in particular, modified elaborated input, constitute better options, with tasks, not just texts, functioning as important input sources. Modified elaborated input, potentially coupled with bimodal presentation, has many positive features, especially, but not only, for programs seeking to increase students' opportunities for enhanced incidental learning.

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Language Teaching , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 169 - 182
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